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Provided by: Probable Futures |Published on: April 11, 2025
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Synopsis
This article defines climate risk and its three types, which become increasingly prominent as climate change increases and weather becomes more extreme.
Students will learn about exposure risks, physical damage, and systemic response risk, and the factors that increase risks and vulnerability.
The article takes time to talk about preparedness and how it can decrease one's vulnerability, which is great for students who feel anxious after discussing this topic.
The article also links to helpful graphs and charts to help students analyze related data.
Prerequisites
Students should understand climate change and how it may increase the frequency and/or severity of extreme weather events.
Differentiation & Implementation
After reading this article, students can check out the Climate Risk Index 2025 to see how other countries are at risk for climate change-related weather.
Students can research the extreme weather that threatens their region as climate change worsens and create a preparedness plan to decrease their vulnerability.
To understand systemic response risks, students can analyze an extreme weather event from the recent past and the responses of human-made and natural systems to that event.
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Probable Futures
Probable Futures offers useful tools and maps to visualize climate change along with stories and insights to help people understand what those changes mean.
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