What YOU Can Do about Climate Change

• This video highlights the differences between individual consumer actions to solve climate change and the necessary collective actions that we must take as a society.
• It shows how individual consumer actions are often emphasized over systemic, political, regulatory, and corporate actions.
• Positive solutions are offered that individuals can take that will promote and work towards those collective goals.
  

Positives

• This video is great at shifting students' focus onto bigger solutions that are necessary to fight climate change, while recognizing that individual actions still matter.

Additional Prerequisites

• Content ends at 9:40 and is followed by sponsorship information.
• There are ads before the video.
  

Differentiation

• Civics and social studies classes can use this to teach the difference between individual action and collective action.
• The concept of regulatory action is stressed as a necessary step beyond consumer choices, which could also be addressed in civics and social studies classes.
• Other resources about the solutions to climate change include this video by Project Drawdown, this article about food waste, and this video by the Climate Reality Project.
  

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