Question: what's your intake on climate change?

Cat Scott ? answered on 18 Mar 2016:

Hi AB,

I think it’s pretty amazing that the world turned out the way it did – the chances of all the things happening (just the right distance from the Sun ☀, having a moon, etc) to have made the Earth somewhere humans and animals can live are pretty remote, so I feel like we have a responsibility to understand the planet + look after it! ?

Currently climate change is set to really ruin the world, so I’d like to do anything I can to help stop that from happening. The idea of my research is to understand how forests affect the climate so that we can use this information to make laws that protect them.

Some countries in the world are already suffering from very bad weather events (like floods and droughts) that may have been made worse by climate change ? if we don’t try hard to stop it from being so bad, temperatures around the world will increase too much, lots of places will flood and there will be famines ? it’s very important that we try to stop climate change from getting that bad – we can all help by trying not to use too much energy (like by turning things off when you are not using them, or walking places rather than going in the car).

At the end of last year, all the Presidents, Prime Ministers and leaders of the different countries in the world all got together and decided to try and stop climate change from happening. This was a really important moment and it means that if everyone sticks to their promises, climate change will not be as bad as it could have been.