EXAMPLES OF ROLES:
> FIRST NATION TRIBE. You are a member of an indigenous tribe. Your community is dependent on natural resources and moving around. Increased weather extremes and variability impacts domestic and wild plants and animals making your food and lifestyle unsustainable. Environmental degradation erodes the quality of life dependent on the purity of the land, water, flora and fauna, and affects your cultures, languages and spiritual health and well-being.
> INDIVIDUAL IN FLOOD RISK AREA, UK. You live in the North of the UK. Changes in the weather have led to flood risks becoming more frequent in your area. You cannot get insurance for your house, you have to reduce your working hours when the flooding comes which reduces your income and puts you and your family under the poverty line.
> BLACK WOMAN IN THE USA. You live in an Black majority area as racist housing policies prevent you from getting a mortgage in “desirable” areas. Your area has extremely high exposure to environmental hazards with the water contaminated by uranium making it unsafe to drink. You have tried to protest and bring this to the attention of policy makers in your area however this is dangerous as the police use tear gas, beat up and kill black people.
> BUSINESSMAN FROM JAPAN. You are a businessman from Japan involved in the sales of Toyota electric cars. Intense and extreme weather events such as typhoons and tsunamis are becoming more frequent and are a real risk to you, your young children and to your business that you rely on to feed your children.
> FARMER ON THE EDGE OF THE SAHARA. You live on the edge of the Sahara and farm for a living. Rising temperatures are increasing desertification which is reducing
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