General Objective:

1.To develop the skills of language.2.To create an interest in the language.

Specific Objectives:1.To awaken the children to the environmental

deterioration.2.To convince the children to act responsibly

with an understanding of its reaction.

Statement of the topic:

• The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement’s role• Nani Palkhivala

Introduction of the topic

Climate Change will make the earth more vulnerable to disease, disasters and heat waves.

THE AILING PLANET

“Green” is a global movement that aims to sustain and improve our environment, for current and future generations. In recent times, being green has gained social prominence in response to concerns with global limited natural resources, and the quality of the air we breathe.

Green Movement

Kyoto Protocol

• The Kyoto Protocol is a protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC or FCCC), aimed at fighting global warming. The UNFCCC is an international environmental treaty with the goal of achieving "stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system."

The Copenhagen Climate Summit

• Copenhagen Climate Summit, thus making the 2009 UN climate summit a success for the benefit of sustainable climate policy. The network will use the period before, under and after the Copenhagen Climate Summit to establish networks among businesses, individuals and organizations supporting a climate policy focusing on the environment.

A Green Fund should be used to solve half of the"legally binding" problem. There is no world government, so as President Obama said, "Kyoto was legally binding and everybody still fell short Anyway.”An innovative approach for implementing such a Green Fund along with

international carbon-pricing commitments :• Internationally agree a single global carbon price (not on 100 caps).• Use money (a Green Fund) to motivate developing countries to comply.

– Compliance by poor countries will clear the way for stronger policies in rich countries• A uniform global carbon price solves the problem of carbon-intensive exports.• Those who remain outside the system or cheat can be penalized with trade

sanctions

The Cancun Summit

• What do you understand from all these summits and protocols?

• What do you understand by Global Warming?• What are the ailments of our Planet?• Why must we cure the ailments of our Planet?

The term green is actually an ideal that started in as early as 1972 in New Zealand (Dann). Since then the world has slowly started to understand the concepts that the movement supports. However, we now live in times where our environment, the earth's finite resources, and the health of ourselves and our world are truly at risk. These potential dangers have now made it necessary for the worlds consumers to understand what green is.

To be green is to rethink how we consume and dispose of our resources in everyday life, accept and act upon the need for conservation, take control of your own environmental impact, and encourage others to understand their responsibility to the world around them. This movement allows every person, regardless of age, class, gender, race, or religion, to make a difference in the well being of our earth. Once everyone is educated about being green, we can use that unified front to make severe improvements in our environment.

GO GREEN

Disasters caused due to environmental imbalance

Environmental Sustainability• Environmental sustainability is the process of making sure current

processes of interaction with the environment are pursued with the idea of keeping the environment as pristine as naturally possible based on ideal-seeking behavior.

• An "unsustainable situation" occurs when natural capital (the sum total of nature's resources) is used up faster than it can be replenished. Sustainability requires that human activity only uses nature's resources at a rate at which they can be replenished naturally. Inherently the concept of sustainable development is intertwined with the concept of carrying capacity. Theoretically, the long-term result of environmental degradation is the inability to sustain human life. Such degradation on a global scale could imply extinction for humanity.

Solar towers utilize the natural resource of the sun, and are a renewable energy source.

Copernicus’ theory• 1. There is no one center of all the celestial circles or spheres.

2. The center of the earth is not the center of the universe, but only of gravity and of the lunar sphere.3. All the spheres revolve about the sun as their mid-point, and therefore the sun is the center of the universe.4. The ratio of the earth's distance from the sun to the height of the firmament is so much smaller than the ratio of the earth's radius to its distance from the sun that the distance from the earth to the sun is imperceptible in comparison with the height of the firmament.5. Whatever motion appears in the firmament arises not from any motion of the firmament, but from the earth's motion. The earth together with its circumjacent elements performs a complete rotation on its fixed poles in a daily motion, while the firmament and highest heaven abide unchanged.6. What appear to us as motions of the sun arise not from its motion but from the motion of the earth and our sphere, with which we revolve about the sun like any other planet. The earth has, then, more than one motion.

Assignments:

• Write a paragraph on the hazards to our environment.• Write a letter to your friend describing him/her about the

conference you attended regarding the environmental awareness programme.

• Recently a seminar was held in your school on environmental awareness. Write its report(80-100 words)

• Define the terms:1. holistic and ecological view 2. sustainable development3. Domination to one based on partnership