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• ☐ ☐ ☐ at stake [n] - at risk
• ☐ ☐ ☐ an activist [n] - a person who works for a cause
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a cause [n] - a purpose, a reason
• ☐ ☐ ☐ immense [adj] - huge
• ☐ ☐ ☐ mass [adj] - large amount
• ☐ ☐ ☐ extinctions [n] - one species dying completely
• ☐ ☐ ☐ primates [n] - monkeys, apes, humans
• ☐ ☐ ☐ persisted [v] - kept trying
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a continent [n] - a large piece of land [image]
• ☐ ☐ ☐ innovation [n] - creativity, invention
• ☐ ☐ ☐ foraging [v] - searching for food
• ☐ ☐ ☐ agriculture [n] - growing food
• ☐ ☐ ☐ settle into [phv] - become comfortable
• ☐ ☐ ☐ stability [n] - not changing much
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a ledge [n] - a platform
• ☐ ☐ ☐ reliable [adj] - can depend on
• ☐ ☐ ☐ accumulated [v] - gathered
• ☐ ☐ ☐ inventors [n] - people who make things
• ☐ ☐ ☐ unleash [v] - let something act freely
• ☐ ☐ ☐ unimaginable [adj] - can't even imagine it
• ☐ ☐ ☐ mobility [n] - ability to move
• ☐ ☐ ☐ compacted [v] - squeezed together
• ☐ ☐ ☐ disrupt [v] - bother
• ☐ ☐ ☐ birthed (something) [exp] - created (something)
• ☐ ☐ ☐ infrastructure [n] - systems of living
• ☐ ☐ ☐ varied [v] - changed
• ☐ ☐ ☐ capacity [n] - possible amount
• ☐ ☐ ☐ quadrupled [v] - x4
• ☐ ☐ ☐ suffering [v] - feeling pain or unpleasantness
• ☐ ☐ ☐ vulnerability [n] - being in a weak position
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a coal deposit [n] - a large amount of coal [image]
• ☐ ☐ ☐ unearth [v] - uncover
• ☐ ☐ ☐ carbon [n] - C [image]
• ☐ ☐ ☐ change course [exp] - change direction

[n] - noun,  [v] - verb,  [phv] - phrasal verb,  [adj] - adjective,  [exp] - expression

1. What is one of the biggest mistakes people make about climate change?
   Saying it's not affecting the planet
   Saying it's related to eating steak
   Saying the planet might be destroyed
   Saying humanity might be destroyed
   
   
2. How many times has the Earth gone through such a big change?.
   Never
   Once
   Many times
   
   
3. Which species came first?
   Mammals
   Reptiles
   Primates
   Walking mammals
   
   
4. Which things happened 12,000 years ago?
   Humans began to change things in a big way.
   Humans stopped collecting food.
   Humans started producing food.
   Humans built civilizations.
   
   
5. Why did the development of farming take so much time?
   Global temperatures are special.
   The climate was not stable before.
   Humans needed more reliable seasons for farming.
   Humans needed settlements for farming.
   
   
6. Why were machines so helpful?
   They created much faster growth.
   They allowed humans to move around easier.
   They saved energy for humans.
   They saved human lives.
   
   
7. How did humans provide fuel for machines?
   They used dirt.
   They used trees.
   They used carbon dioxide.
   They used coal.
   
   
8. Which statements about climate change are true?
   Humans have changed the climate cycle.
   The fuel that we used to produce machine farming has changed the climate cycle.
   For 10,000 years the climate has not changed more than 1 degree Celsius.
   By 2100, the earth's temperature will increase by 5 degrees Celsius.
   
   
9. How long have humans been around?
   0.004% of Earth's history
   0.04% of Earth's history
   2,000,000 years
   200,000 years
   
   
10. According to the report, which of these phenomena is new?
    Climate change
    Civilization
    Species extinction
    
    
11. How many people are alive now compared to 1918?
    200% more
    400% more
    4 billion more
    4,000,000,000 more
    
    
12. What is climate change really about?
    The earth's survival
    Human weakness
    Human innovation
    Economics
    
    

1. Why do you think people 'frame' the climate change debate as a planetary cause rather than a human cause?
2. Do you think we should focus on the prevention of human extinction more than animal exctinction? Or other species extinction?
3. Would you rather have a healthy environment with very little infrastructure, or a comfortable infrastructure with a toxic environment?