Description: Global Futures Education offers high-level online climate education for professionals and executives wanting to understand climate crisis and find solutions.
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Creating Your Futures Readiness
Climate Crisis & Climate Turnaround. Module 1 (Lessons 1-4) introduces the two most significant aspects of climate crisis: global warming and sea level rise. Global warming melts icecaps, resulting in storms, wildfires, sea level rise, and food shortages from loss of arable land to drought, floods, and salination. Generated by our industrialised lifestyle it is potentially irreversible. You will discover the challenges and increased risks of climate crisis and learn about the many alternative ways we can mi
Old & New Energy Systems. Module 2 (Lessons 5-8) introduces the challenges of antiquated energy systems plus viable alternatives for making life on earth more sustainable, resilient, and healthy. We dive deeper into global warming, focussing on how greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere that overheat the planet are primarily linked to burning fossil fuels. We then explore ‘carbon sequestration’ strategies include planting and preserving forests, and Blue Carbon strategies of restoring coastal seagrass meadows,