Climate Action Week 2022: Lesson for High Schools

What is climate justice and how can we use our voice and consumer choices to support it? All living creatures leave a footprint, including ourselves. But humans have the power to make decisions about the size and shape of the footprint we leave.

We will explore examples of how footprints can become unsustainable and unjust. We will then discuss how we all play a role in either allowing things to continue as they are, or to challenge them to create positive change, as a way of creating Climate Justice.

During the lesson, pupils will need something to write on to answer some questions we will pose and to jot down ideas about who they might want to write to. At the end of the lesson, pupils will be invited to compose a letter or email to someone in a business, organisation or government, asking to make a change to help the environment.

00:00 - Introduction
02:44 - What would we like you to do during Climate Action Week?
06:09 - Lesson begins: Climate Action = Climate Justice
07:40 - The concept of footprints
14:43 - What does Climate Justice mean?
17:37 - How is inequality linked to climate change?
24:00 - How did we get here?
34:20 - Discussion around consumption
41:16 - What can we do?