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High School Student
She is a 16 year old who lives in Cupertino, California. She hopes to become a computer engineer while concurrently saving the environment. She would say that climate justice burns like a flame in her heart, but fires release CO2.
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High School Student
She is a 17 year old who was born and raised in San Jose, California. She is an upcoming senior at Independence High School. She enjoys volunteering and is passionate about animals and the welfare of the environment.
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High School Student
She is a 16 year living in Fremont and is an upcoming junior at American high school, Fremont. She hopes to become a computer scientist and make people’s lives easier through research of machine learning applications.
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High School Student
She is a 15 year old who is a rising junior in the 2017-18 school year. She loves reading books and she's been dancing since she was six years old. She also enjoys volunteering and cares about addressing climate change and making a difference in her community.
As inhabitants of Earth, we have the reponsibility of maintaining and protecting the planet that allows us to live. We are using the resources of this planet with disregard of future generations, other living organisms, and the health of Terra Mater*.
We started our website with the goal of spreading awareness of the environmental issues we are facing today in the hopes of expressing the gravity of our situation. As members of the recent generation, we are passionate about creating a better tomorrow for our future families.
*Terra Mater is the Roman goddess of Earth.
THREE DEGREES- Natural disasters become more frequent and vicious. There will be no ice. Water levels will rise by 25 meters. 150 million people will be displaced.
TWO DEGREES- In time, there will be no fresh water. Once the atmosphere is damaged to this point, there is no going back.
We are already past the one degree mark, meaning global tempertures have already risen one degree. Already, we are facing unpredictible droughts and flash floods.
If we continue releasing carbon dioxide at this rate, we will reach our 2 degree cap 3 times over by 2050.
turtle
The sea turtle population has halved within the past 30 years due to plastic in oceans.
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fish
If we continue to litter at this rate, by 2050 the weight of the plastic in the ocean will outweigh the fish.
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bear
There is only about 25,000 polar bears left because most of their prey have evacuated the pollution.
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water
The world's global sea line has risen by 8 inches.
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pika
This small mammal climbs to higher altitudes to find tolerable weather. Soon it will run out of places to go.
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praire
The prairies has already lost up to 70 percent of its waterfowl potholes, where many other animals also breed.
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