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This article identifies the personal actions that individuals in the European Union are taking to address climate change.
Additional Prerequisites
Students should have some knowledge about climate change.
Differentiation
Geography and social studies classes could discuss how and why it might be easier or harder for people in the European Union to cut down on air travel and/ or reduce their meat consumption than it would be for people in other parts of the world. Students could think about the kinds of transportation and food options that might be available to people in the European Union that are not available in other places and brainstorm reasons for why some people can make better environmental choices and others cannot.
Students could research current legislation in the United States or commitments made by the United States and other countries to address climate change and compare them to the European Union's commitments.
