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Fig 15.1 Increasing consumption (the Great Acceleration) has endangered the planet within a human lifetime.
Source: World in Data and other sources.
Featured websites
Website 15.1 Making a wormery
A helpful video explaining how to make a wormery in a plastic box.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ordM5TWyFLw
Website 15.2 Ocean garbage
The address for google images portraying appalling scenes of ocean plastic pollution and other garbage.
https://www.google.com/search?q=plastic+in+the+ocean+images&rlz=1C1GCEU_en-GBIL915IL915&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjupo_e6J3wAhVygf0HHd1OBGsQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1097&bih=535&dpr=1.75
Website 15.3 Plastic ducks
A song story about how thousands of bright yellow plastic ducks were washed off a merchant ship and were carried by the wind and ocean currents to faraway places.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RPUmRmdcjw
Website 15.4 Great London smog
A ‘history pod’ account of the Great Smog which descended on London in 1952.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xajjmbJrfEM
Website 15.5 Kids against plastic
Free resources to help young people learn about environmental issues such as plastic pollution and climate change
https://www.kidsagainstplastic.co.uk
Website 15.6 Moby Dick
A clip from the 1956 film portraying the hunting of Moby Dick, the great white whale.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVd_LzWJIC8
Website 15.7 The Natural History Museum whale
A brief documentary about the conservation of the famous blue whale now named ‘Hope’ at London’s Natural History Museum.
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/whale-move-conservation-commences.html
Website 15.8 Ecological footprints
One of a number of websites which details the ecological footprints of different countries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_ecological_footprint
Dear Greenpeace by Simon James (Walker books 2016).
Worried that the whale living in her pond is unhappy, Emily writes to Greenpeace, and seeks the best course of action for her beloved whale, finally setting him free.
One World by Michael Foreman (Andersen 1999).
A girl and her brother marvel at the diversity of life as they fill a bucket with water from a pool by the sea but they find it is polluted with a blob of oil.
Other resources
Are you eating plastic for dinner?
A chilling investigation into plastic pollution, suitable for older children.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjT8GG0ETQg&ab_channel=NationalGeographic
Carbon offsetting
A spoof video (of variable quality) which exposes the hypocrisy of carbon offsetting by comparing it to cheating on a partner.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I6zpnVW134k
Cleaning up plastic pollution
The amazing story of how a clean-up system has been developed to begin removing plastic from the ocean gyres.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYC4Q-0wcAc
Finite energy resources
Short video identifying the characteristics of non-renewable energy sources
https://youtu.be/MpEJnnpye-k
Midway Island plastic pollution
A film about the horrors of plastic waste pollution and its impact on birds on Midway Island, framed by the curse retold in the Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner by Coleridge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUM58LIU2Lo
Net zero
Three scientists contend that net zero is one of a number of convenient myths which lull us into believing that current lifestyles can be maintained.
https://theconversation.com/climate-scientists-concept-of-net-zero-is-a-dangerous-trap-157368
Plastic bricks
How a community in Ivory Coast has used plastic waste to make bricks for a new school
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-africa-51213133
Renewable energy resources
Companion video detailing the nature of renewable energy resources
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Giek094C_l4
