Project Green
ENA 7
Krista Kindt-Sarojärvi
Section 5
& Grammar
Class 1
Watch the video, then translate this text orally.
Narrated by Academy Awards winner Jeremy Irons, Heal the Bay's "mockumentary" video shows the stark reality of California's plastic bag pollution situation. Heal the Bay, alongside a coalition of environmental and public health experts, pushed the State of California to pass a ban on single-use plastic bags: Prop 67 passed on Nov 8, 2017. But this plastic waste reduction legislation is only the beginning. Heal the Bay is on a mission to ban all single-use plastic.
Water is life! And more than that, the quality of water affects the quality of life for humans, the environment, ecosystems, and, of course, the waters themselves. The US federal government recognized this decades ago, and created the first major federal law in the US to address water pollution, called the 1948 Federal Water Pollution Control Act. However, this policy was ineffective owing to a lack of oversight and enforceability. Public pressure following a series of environmental plights (including the Cuyahoga River catching on fire) forced the US to reconsider its approach, leading to the 1972 Clean Water Act (CWA) Amendment. This amendment, among many upgrades, gave the EPA more regulatory control to enforce clean water requirements and achieve swimmable, fishable, drinkable water.
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- Translate the introduction.
Add difficult words and phrases to your notebook! - Do ex. 1 (just go through the statements and make sure you understand all the words!), 2 & 5 & 6
Climate tipping points (CTPs) are conditions beyond which changes in a part of the climate system become self-perpetuating. These changes may lead to abrupt, irreversible, and dangerous impacts with serious implications for humanity. (source)
[...] there are now 16 major tipping points, almost all of which could reach the point of no return if global warming continues beyond 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) above preindustrial levels. (source)
Section 5
Read up on WED!
link 1: World Environment Day
link 2: worldenvironmentday.global
June 5th
You'll find even more interesting news at the Green Institute.
Pay attention to new vocabulary!
section 5.3: ex. 22:
Listening comprehension:
Biodiversity Hotspots
Section 5.3
Are We Really Past the Point of No Return on Climate? Scientists Respond To Controversial New Study
(EcoWatch, November 2020)
Is the climate crisis pushing the world towards a ‘point of no return’?
A new study claims we may have already reached a hypothetical ‘point of no return’, but other researchers say this is ‘at odds’ with what we know about climate science.
(The Independent, November 2020)
Opinion: We are close to the point of no return
We must make 2021 the year when climate action came of age, or face disaster, writes Inger Andersen, the executive director of the UN Environment Programme. (DW.com, January 2021)
'Past a point of no return': Reducing greenhouse gas emissions to zero still won't stop global warming, study says. (USA Today, 1 min video+text, November 2020)
Greenland's ice sheet melting has passed the point of no return | Climate Change | GHG (1:41)
Grammar - revison A
- words of quantity (section 5.3, ex. 12)
Section 7
Grammar - revison B
VÄLIMERKIT
Section 7, ex. KK1 - 5
Section 7
Section 5 #1, 2022 ind.
By Krista Kindt-Sarojärvi
