This week I have been preparing a lesson for my seminar about global warming and the changes which it may bring to the world and our lives. Some of these changes may be painful, i.e. rising sea levels, abnormal weather, hotter summers, etc., but some of them may be positive. For example, people may start to take better care of nature and the environment as a result of global warming. People may begin to see that consumerism (i.e. buying lots of things) is making global warming worse, because making goods in factories and transporting them hundreds or thousands of miles produces a lot of CO2. When people realize this, they may begin to buy fewer things and to live more frugally, in a way which is kinder to the earth.
I think it will be very interesting to see what changes take place in the next five or ten years as a result of global warming. We are living in very exciting and challenging times.