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The future we want: Presentation 2 3 Find the definition: What’s the correct definition for this term? Food miles a.The distance that a foodstuff travels before it reaches the consumer. b.The unit farmers use to measure their fields. c.The distance a person needs to run to burn the calories in a certain food.

The future we want: Presentation 2 4 Find the definition: What’s the correct definition for this term? Biodiversity a.The degree of variation of life forms within a given species, ecosystem, biome, or an entire planet. b.An institution for higher learning with teaching and research facilities. c.The study of living organisms.

The future we want: Presentation 2 5 Find the definition: What’s the correct definition for this term? Carbon footprint a.A mark left by someone who’s walked through ashes. b.The total volume of greenhouse gas emissions caused by an organisation, event, product, person or country. c.A remnant of an organism, such as a skeleton or leaf imprint, embedded and preserved in the Earth's crust.

The future we want: Presentation 2 6 Find the definition: What’s the correct definition for this term? Ecosystem a.A way of managing a process sustainably. b.Environmental activists that adopt a ‘hands on’ effort to save or salvage a plot of land. c.A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.

The future we want: Presentation 2 7 Possible futures What happens in the future depends on the choices that we make in the present. We can imagine endless possible futures depending on the choices that are made. The scenario presented in the film Wall-E could be one example of a possible future. ©

The future we want: Presentation 2 8 Possible futures In Wall-E we’re shown a future where the Earth is overrun with rubbish, and there’s no remaining plant or animal life. As a result of people’s lack of care for the environment and over consumption nothing is able to live on Earth. All humans have to live on a spaceship. ©

The future we want: Presentation 2 9 Possible futures Imagining possible futures can be one way to help us make choices about how to act. By imagining the impact of a certain choice, and what the future would look like with it, we can decide on the best choice to make. ©

The future we want: Presentation 2 10 Possible futures Some choices are down to the individual, for example whether you leave the tap running when you’re brushing your teeth. Other choices are made by governments, for example whether to limit the amount of fossil fuels that can be used by a company. ©

The future we want: Presentation 2 11 Possible futures 1.Do you think people like this possible future? 2.What are some of the good things about it? 3.What are some of the difficult things about it? 4.Who will benefit and who will lose from this future? 5.Why would / wouldn’t you want to live in this future? ©