Climate Change - Mint Starter Kit

Earth has a natural carbon cycle that helps keep our planet in a habitable temperature range.

Humans unintentionally disrupt the carbon cycle by burning carbon-based fuels like coal, oil, and gas.

Burning these carbon-based fuels overloads the carbon cycle. This causes the planet to warm up.

Even a small change impacts hundreds of millions of lives and costs trillions.

Extreme weather events like stronger storms and worse floods.
Shortages of food and water, rising sea levels that threaten coastal communities.
Property damage from disasters.
Infrastructure failures like roads and power lines.
Higher costs for everyday goods and business losses.

Focused on next quarter’s profits, most companies don’t have strong reasons to significantly cut their carbon emissions.