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Take a Stance - by Valeria Armenta

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    • Valeria Armenta at Pima Community College
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    Drawing of melting planet with the words Take a Stance

    Take a stance!
    What do you do,
    When the place that was once green
    is now brown and gloom,
    the sky that was once clear and bright
    is now fogged off with smoke,
    glaciers are melting
    and sea levels are rising,
    summers are hotter
    and winters are colder,
    droughts are becoming more intense
    and storms more severe,
    our planet is screaming for help
    and we are choosing to ignore it?

    Photo of starving polar bear on melting iceberg

    Our climate crisis is real
    and it is human caused
    Greenhouse gases have to be controlled!
    We can’t stop or reverse the damage
    but we can slow the rate
    Take a stance
    and make a change
    be the change
    you want to see

    Flowchart of climate crisis contributors

    Join forces
    and share information
    Reduce, reuse, and recycle
    Place pressure
    and speak up
    Urge government to take climate action now
    Take a stance!

    Photo of climate crisis protest outside government building

    Image and Photo Credits:

    1. Baluchi5, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    2. Andreas Weith, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    3. RCraig09, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    4. System Change, not Climate Change!, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

    This page titled Take a Stance - by Valeria Armenta is shared under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Valeria Armenta at Pima Community College.