What’s the Difference: City vs. Country

Make a list of the ways living in Toronto is different from living in rural Saskatchewan using students’ input. Are there any similarities? What is the most significant difference? Ask students to compare life where they are with both Toronto and rural...

Consider the Illustrations

How does the illustration on pages 11–12 help students understand the difference between “there” and “here”? Why do they think the illustrator created one picture and not two?

Is The Issue Too Big?

Most people now know what they can do as individuals to help address climate change. But how can everyone be urged to do it? How do people get their governments to take action? How can the feeling that it’s too big an issue for individual action be addressed?

Discuss Tuvalu

Reread the sidebar about Tuvalu on page 70. What do you think: Should Tuvalu be given compensation? What about developing countries with low greenhouse gas emissions? Should they be compensated in some way?