The Cost of Carbon

Provided by: The Climate Reality Project |Published on: April 27, 2021
Videos Grades 6-8, 9-12

Synopsis

  • This video explains carbon pollution, provides a history of climate science (beginning with Joseph Fourier in the 1820s), and makes the connections to livelihoods, lives lost, and the economic costs of carbon pollution and climate change. 
  • It shows that all humans on Earth are impacted by climate change right now. These impacts include economic costs, personal costs, environmental costs, and geopolitical costs.
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Subjects: Science, Economics, History
Authors: The Climate Reality Project
Region: Europe, North America, USA - Northeast, USA - West, USA - South, United States, Global, Oceania, New Jersey
Languages: English

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The Climate Reality Project
Climate Reality Project seeks to catalyze a global solution to the climate crisis by making urgent action a necessity across every sector of society. They recruit, train, and mobilize people to become powerful activists, providing the skills, campaigns, and resources to push for aggressive climate action and high-level policies that accelerate a just transition to clean energy.