The impact of climate change on your descendants is focus of new project
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- There is a need to think about one's own descendants when thinking about the impacts of climate change, according to a new project designed to help people focus on that aspect of the global challenge.
The Your Climate Legacy project stems from the fact that much of the discussion about climate change mentions its impact on "future generations," without focusing on who those people will be and how they will actually live. Your Climate Legacy intends to show that these people in the future are not anonymous, generic individuals, but instead our specific descendants. The project will seek to enable people to get a visual picture of what climate change impacts could mean for their descendants.
"Your Climate Legacy was created because of the idea that each of us should consider what climate change will mean to our specific descendants," said Dan Delurey, one of the organizers of the project. "People living 50 or 100 years from now will be our grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and beyond. These descendants will live in a time when the effects of climate change are most strongly felt. These descendants are real people who will know us as their elders."
In addition to providing users with a visual image of what their descendants will face, the Your Climate Legacy project has assembled resources that provide information on future climate impacts based on where one lives and what one's particular interests and hobbies are. For example, if you enjoy eating chocolate or peanut butter, or participating in activities like hiking, skiing, watching the Winter Olympics, or having a Christmas tree, you will be able to look at how climate change will affect these things, and think about whether your descendants will be able to enjoy these same activities.
More information about the Your Climate Legacy Project is available at www.yourclimatelegacy.org.
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