Watch Chabot Space and Science Center's Galaxy Explorers on Chemistry Team tell you about their project to turn used cooking oil into usable biodiesel, as well as their thoughts on chemistry team's year!
“Uninhabitable Earth” spurs us to action by showing the alternative
For each problem, Wallace-Wells provides statistics from the past, present, and future, detailing the catastrophic collapse that could occur if climate change were allowed to run unchecked. In each chapter, Wallace-Wells constantly references the cost, both in dollars and human lives, of each issue alone. California readers may find the chapter on wildfires particularly interesting—California’s wildfires occupy a special focus in this chapter.
The Great Derangement: Applying a Humanities Lens to COVID-19
Amitav Ghosh’s short non-fiction work, The Great Derangement, addresses the systems in place which propagate the perceived separation between humanity and nature by examining a different environmental issue: climate change, specifically the rise of sudden, deadly natural disasters due to the increasing global temperature.