In the face of a warmer climate there are some lifestyle changes that your children and grandchildren will have to learn to make. Providing at least four unavoidable consequences of climate change and discuss some of these changes.

What will be an ideal response?


Prolonged droughts may force my family to stop farming in order to make a living, and we may have to relocate or change vocations. Sea level rises may cause storms to damage our home, and we may have to leave our community, which is where we have lived for generations. Worsening forest fires may burn our village and cause disruption to our lifestyle or even death in the family. Major heat waves may give me a stroke, and if so, I won't be there for my children and grandchildren.Answers will vary.

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