Travelling exhibition and workshop
David Rwanda
LETTERS FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH
A project by Zero Hour, the campaign for the Climate and Ecology (CE) Bill, and Muslims Declare. FOR MORE INFORMATION YOU CAN VISIT: www.lettersfromtheglobalsouth.org Email: alessandrapalange@zerohour.uk Some images in this booklet were sourced from freesvg.org and rawpixel.com
We asked children, parents, teachers and climate campaigners around the world to tell us how the climate and nature crisis is affecting their lives. Within a few months, we received handwritten letters, emails, photos and drawings from children and adults who are living in countries and communities experiencing the very real impacts of climate change and environmental destruction. The photos in this exhibition were taken by everyday people as they go about their lives; revealing the vulnerability of the landscape set against environmental destruction and climate change. The exhibition provides an invaluable glimpse at different realities and encourages us to think about how we live in the UK and how our lifestyles send ripple effects across the Global South. We explore and explain this connection by looking at the science behind the Climate and Ecology Bill: a proposed legislation that, if made law, would ensure that the UK takes responsibility for polluting land, air and sea at home as well as abroad.
Ryan Zimbabwe
FOR THE PAST 200 YEARS, MANY SOCIETIES HAVE COME TO DEPEND HEAVILY ON ENERGY FROM FOSSIL FUELS We extract and burn fossil fuels...
To power machinery...
To extract natural resources (raw materials) from the Earth...
And to do pretty much everything else: from heating and powering buildings to manufacturing building materials, appliances, food and clothes.
BURNING FOSSIL FUELS RELEASES POWERFUL GREENHOUSE GASES, SUCH AS CARBON DIOXIDE (CO2) AND METHANE
WHAT IS CLIMATE CHANGE? DOESN’T THE CLIMATE CHANGE ALL THE TIME?
THEN, WHY DO WE WORRY ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE?
The short answer is yes, natural changes to the climate have always happened. For example, the last time Earth witnessed average temperatures that were 4° warmer than pre-industrial times was around 5-10 million years ago. This very hot period of Earth’s history, however, occurred before humans existed.
Natural changes to the climate are very slow, they happen over tens of thousands of years. These changes alone cannot explain how rapidly the average temperatures are increasing right now.
Another warm period occurred 130,000 to 115,000 years ago, before the last ice age, when global average temperatures were about 1-2° warmer than pre-industrial times (so a climate similar to what we experienced in 2016). Today, we are living in a period (Holocene) between ice ages with relatively stable temperatures. This climate is essential to maintain human life.
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In less than 200 years, human activities that rely on energy from oil, gas and coal (fossil fuels) have increased the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere by 50%. This increase in CO2 concentration warms the planet - causing the climate to change.
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Scientists have known for a long time that the significant increase in the levels of powerful greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane, is the primary cause of this rapid rise in average temperatures.
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This graph shows the correlation between the concentration of carbon dioxide (blue line) and global temperatures in degrees Celsius (red line) over 1000 years (source: climate.nasa.gov). One-minute YouTube video: “Time History of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, by CIRES & NOAA” by the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences Quick link: bit.ly/historycarbon
THE UK CREATES JUST OVER HALF OF ITS CO2 EMISSIONS AT HOME Within the UK, greenhouse gas emissions come from a variety of sources, for example when we drive our cars, heat our homes, refrigerate foods and use appliances. On a larger scale, businesses also produce greenhouse
gases when they manufacture and transport goods across the country. Here’s how much CO2 different industries produce within the UK. Experts call these ‘territorial emissions’:
Renewables are 9 times cheaper than electricity generated in gas power stations. Investing in renewable energy and storage can reduce carbon emissions and save people money.
Food industry 21% The UK imports 50% of the vegetables and 84% of the fruit we eat. Less than 1% of British farmland is used to grow fruit and veg. If we include imported food, the food system is responsible for 35% of total UK emissions.
Domestic transport 20% Energy production/supply 19%
Manufacturing & construction 11% Heating buildings 16%
UK homes lose heat up to three times faster than homes in other European countries. 28.6 million homes in the UK are energy inefficient. Home insulation would cut energy use by more than 50% and save people money.
Building homes has a high carbon footprint. It’s estimated that in the UK 1.2 million homes are empty. The UK could reduce emissions by making sure we use existing homes before building new ones.
95% of this is cars, vans and lorries.
Aviation/shipping refrigeration/ air conditioning 9%
Waste 6%
... AND OVER 40% OUTSIDE ITS OWN BORDERS Many of the things we consume, such as food, clothes and appliances, are produced outside of the UK. The greenhouse gas emissions generated during their production are still our responsibility as we are the ones who import and use these products. These emissions are commonly referred to as ‘imported emissions’ by experts. Unfortunately, the government does not take into account the emissions we create abroad, as per
international practice, and currently has no targets to reduce them. Among the wealthiest nations globally, the UK ranks as the highest net importer of greenhouse gas emissions per person. And although the territorial emissions of the UK have decreased by 46% since 1990, when we factor in imported emissions, the UK’s emissions reduction is only a meager 18%.
We import building materials and equipment We import food
We import fossil fuels
We travel all over the world We import goods, such as cars, electronics and clothes
THE PROBLEM IS THAT WE CONSUME TOO MUCH, TOO FAST To make all the stuff we use every day, businesses use energy, They also extract materials from the earth and destroy forests to use the land. All of these activities cause large amounts of greenhouse gases to be released in the atmosphere. Many wealthy countries and corporations extract so much that nature cannot replace what’s being destroyed fast enough. Similarly, wealthier countries tend to produce greenhouse gases much faster than nature can absorb them. Basically, some individuals and groups consume so much that nature just can’t catch up.
The graph shows how many Earths we would need if the entire world lived like the average resident of the following countries:
If everyone lived like an average UK resident, we would need more than two and a half Earths to sustain the world population.
Humanity is using nature 1.8 times faster than our planet’s biological capacity to regenerate it.
WHEN NATURE IS HEALTHY, WE ARE HEALTHY Nature stores CO2. When we destroy nature by cutting down forests or trawling sea beds, the carbon stored in animal and plant life is released into the atmosphere. This makes climate change worse.
Nature absorbs CO2 from the atmosphere. Nature acts like a sponge, the more nature we restore, the more carbon dioxide it will take out of the atmosphere.
Nature protects us from the effects of climate change, like extreme heat and flooding.
THE WORLD'S BIGGEST CARBON SINKS
WOODLANDS OCEANS AND FORESTS OCEANS do a fantastic job of absorbing more carbon dioxide and producing more oxygen than any other ecosystem. Overfishing and other damaging practices (particularly in our existing Marine Protected Areas) must stop in order to allow the oceans to recover. WOODLANDS AND FORESTS are being destroyed to make space for agriculture. However, nearly 80% of
farmland is used to feed animals instead of humans. Reducing meat and dairy would lower emissions and free up land to restore nature. Using land to grow vegetables to feed people directly would also improve the UK’s food security. In the UK, PEATLANDS store the largest amount of carbon dioxide. Billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide have been locked into our
PEATLANDS
peatlands for thousands of years and they must be protected to prevent it from escaping. However, 80% of our peatlands are degraded due to drainage for agriculture, grazing and trampling by livestock, burning on shooting estates and peat extraction for ornamental garden plants. These degraded peatlands now contribute to almost 5% of UK emissions.
The poorest countries are custodians of some of the biggest natural carbon stores in the world. Wealthy corporations over-exploit these ecosystems for the production of food and other goods that are consumed in wealthy countries.
WHAT ARE THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE? MORE FREQUENT, UNPREDICTABLE AND EXTREME...
HEATWAVES
RAINFALL
FIRES
FLOODS AND RISING SEA LEVELS
FAMINES
DISPLACEMENT
STORMS
FOOD AND WATER SHORTAGES
CONFLICTS
DROUGHTS
DAMAGE TO BUILDINGS
HEALTH CRISES
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COMPARE THE TERRITORIAL EMISSIONS ACROSS COUNTRIES, HOW DO THEY DIFFER?
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UNITED KINGDOM
TEMPERATURE CHANGE IN THE UK 1884-2001 POPULATION: 67 MILLION TERRITORIAL EMISSIONS:
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BANGLADESH
I live in Dhaka, the largest city in Bangladesh, but I was born in the southern part of the country, which is very vulnerable to extreme weather events, such as cyclones, and rising sea levels. In recent years, we’ve had two cyclones, Sidr and Aila. So many people lost their lives and many more still struggle to recover from the immeasurable economic losses from the cyclones. Because of this, people are often forced to leave their homes to find alternative livelihoods in overcrowded urban areas. Here migrants live in poverty due to the shortage of adequate housing, sanitation, food, water and public healthcare. Climate change worsens the existing problems faced by the urban poor in Bangladesh.
Dr Foyasal Khan, Dhaka
“Trees help human life in many ways. They provide us with flowers, fruits, oxygen and shade. Unfortunately, trees are being indiscriminately felled in both rural and urban areas, resulting in people not receiving fresh air. However, our beloved Prophet (PBUH) said, “Even if the Resurrection were established upon one of you while he has in his hand a sapling, let him plant it.” Planting trees in the mosque will not only enhance the beauty of the place but also be an act of charity (sadaqah jariah). I request you to plant trees to build a green mosque. Let us remember that a tree is a life.” This is an excerpt of Afifa’s letter
Abdullah
BANGLADESH: KEY FACTS
Afifa A MATTER OF JUSTICE TEMPERATURE CHANGE IN BANGLADESH 1901-2001 POPULATION: 166 MILLION TERRITORIAL EMISSIONS: 0.6 tonnes of CO2 per
person
TOP UK IMPORTS FROM BANGLADESH: clothing, fabrics, fish and shellfish In the picture (3): a view of Dhaka from above
“Human-induced climate change is clearly a problem created by rich people all over the world because of their emissions of greenhouse gases. The victims of those emissions are mostly poor people in all countries, even poor people in the USA. If you look at the more than a thousand people who died from hurricane Katrina when it hit New Orleans, they were all poor people. No rich Americans died, they were all poor black people living in the ninth ward of New Orleans. So rich people are causing a problem, poor people are suffering the consequences. That’s not right, that’s just morally wrong. Whatever religion you belong to, your religion will teach you that this is an injustice and you should oppose it and do something about it.”
Prof. Saleemul Huq (Director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development)
INDIA
In the past five years, we saw the worst drought in a century followed by the worst flood in a century, all within a year. My sister’s family had to vacate their home in the middle of the night, leaving their car, furniture and household items behind to be washed away by the flood. Because of climate change, the summer and monsoon seasons have shifted to their extremes.
Naseef Ahammed, Thamarassery
In pictures: (33) Flooding in Panakode, Thamarassery, a small village in the state of Kerala, South India. (3and6) Schoolchildren from Zaytun International Academy holding the signs they made during the letter writing activity. Zaytun International Academy is a boys’ residential school in northern India that provides a blend of modern and Islamic education.
INDIA: KEY FACTS
THE CASE FOR CLEAN AIR
TEMPERATURE CHANGE IN INDIA 1901-2001 POPULATION: 1.3 BILLION TERRITORIAL EMISSIONS: 1.9 tonnes of CO2 per
person
TOP UK IMPORTS FROM INDIA: refined oil, clothing, iron, steel and phramaceutical products.
The main issues that pupils raised during the letter writing activities were climate change and water pollution. The school is located in one of the cities in the state of Uttar Padresh (northern India) and a major environmental problem in this area is pollution; this city is also famous for waste mismanagement by the factories. Indian children should have safe drinking water and live in a pollution-free environment. These are the two main issues which are the causes of illness and disease. Nobody wants their children to grow up in an environment in which they are not able to breathe properly or drink clean water. It’s our duty to safeguard our children. Musheer Uzzaman, Headmaster Of Zaytun International Academy
INDONESIA
Many palm oil corporations in my country are destroying up to 72% of the original forest in Indonesia. This leads to the destruction of natural habitats, which endangers indigenous communities. Governments must take action to stop the harm of environmentally destructive industries like palm oil as well as fossil fuel and coal-based energy.
In the picture: rainforest in Indonesia
TamTam, Jakarta
“I am a vegan recipes content creator. My job helps people to understand the importance of having a plant-rich diet, which creates demand and has a positive effect on local agriculture.” TamTam
SINKING CITIES Jakarta is now sinking at an alarming rate - a rate that varies around the city but is up to 11 inches a year in the northern areas. National Geographic, July 2022
INDONESIA: KEY FACTS
TEMPERATURE CHANGE IN INDONESIA 1901-2001 POPULATION: 276 MILLION TERRITORIAL EMISSIONS: 2.3 tonnes of CO2 per
person
TOP UK EXPORTS FROM INDONESIA: metals, wood, palm oil, textiles
In the picture (3) : Traffic in Jakarta
KENYA
In rural communities in Kenya, girls often have to miss school to travel long distances to get water. The lack of water also pushes wild animals into the communities. Large corporations make this already hard situation worse. They buy wild land for their farming activities, closing migration corridors for animals. This exacerbates conflict between wildlife and local communities. As a result, crops get destroyed, families lose income, people suffer injuries and even death at times.
Fazeela Mubarak, Nairobi
In pictures: girls missing school to look for water during a drought
KENYA: KEY FACTS
TEMPERATURE CHANGE IN KENYA 1901-2001 POPULATION: 55 MILLION In the picture (5) : Children from the Young Muslim Association
Rawiya
TERRITORIAL EMISSIONS: 0.4 tonnes of CO2 per
person
TOP UK IMPORTS FROM KENYA: tea, cut flowers, legumes, cabbages and other vegetables
GOING GREEN AT THE YOUNG MUSLIM ASSOCIATION “Our community’s way of life has been impacted by climate change in various ways, including the disappearance of insects, high temperatures, floods and droughts that lead to loss of vegetation cover and death of livestock. Our children’s home and school run a ‘Going Green’ programme that engages nearly a thousand children in conservation activities, including tree planting, clean-up activities, and environmental education as part of our school routine.”
Ahmed Sheikh Alvi, Director Of The Young Muslim Association (YMA)
MOROCCO
Morocco suffers from climate change with severe drought affecting the harvests and depressing the economy. The local area suffers from drought, especially in the summer as we depend on wells. The well that supplies us with water sometimes breaks down, so it is difficult to maintain cleanliness, and also our plants wither.
Khadijah, Settat
MOROCCO: KEY FACTS
“In their letters, the children talked about different environmental problems. But I noticed that most of them talked about water. I was not surprised by this, as water is a real problem in the local area.” Khadijah
TEMPERATURE CHANGE IN MOROCCO 1901-2001 POPULATION: 36 MILLION TERRITORIAL EMISSIONS: 1.9 tonnes of CO2 per
person
Top UK EXPORTS from MOROCCO: electrical equipment, clothes, vegetables and fruit
In pictures: (3) the primary school in Morocco that participated in Letters from the Global South.
“Water is the most important thing in life because every human, animal and living creature is alive due to water. If it wasn’t for water, people would not be alive.” An excerpt from Hamza’s letter
Maryam
THIRSTY TOMATOES
The impacts of climate change in Morocco include a rise in temperatures and a decrease in rainfall, with longer droughts and more severe floods. This variability of rainfall means that Morocco is more likely to experience water scarcity. From Morocco, the UK imports fruit and vegetables that need a lot of water, such as citrus and tomatoes. These water-intensive crops are the most profitable, however they exacerbate water scarcity when combined with decrease in rainfall caused by climate change. To mitigate these impacts, it is important to shift to drought resistant crops and adopt sustainable agricultural practices.
Hamza
NIGERIA
I live in a coastal area along the Atlantic Ocean and the Lagos lagoon. The biggest problem here is the rise in sea level and flooding. Climate change affects every part of Nigeria. It displaces people from their ancestral homes, it causes desertification and water scarcity, which lead to conflicts between herders and farmers, loss of livelihood for fishermen in water bodies and for farmers in their land due to oil spillages.
Abdulrasheed Ali Musa, Lagos
NIGERIA: KEY FACTS
A DISAPPEARING LAKE TEMPERATURE CHANGE IN NIGERIA 1901-2001 POPULATION: 211 MILLION TERRITORIAL EMISSIONS: 0.6 tonnes of CO2 per
person
TOP UK IMPORTS FROM NIGERIA: crude oil, refined oil, gas
In the picture (3): A man fetches groundwater for drinking and household use from a hand pump well in Auyo Town, Jigawa State (Nigeria). Handpump wells are a very common source of water in rural communities in this region.
Nafeesah
EXPLORE ONLINE The Environmental Justice Atlas
(www.ejatlas.org) is an interactive map documenting nearly 4000 cases of communities struggling for environmental justice from around the world.
Lake Chad has shrunk by over 90% since 1960 due to climate change as well as an increase in the population and unregulated irrigation. At this rate, the lake may disappear within 10 years - changing the way of life for those who depend on it. Lake Chad supports the livelihoods of farmers, pastoralists, hunters and fishermen but as it continues to shrink, those livelihoods are being lost; causing migration to urban centres, social tension, crimes and violence in the cities and towns.
PAKISTAN
For the past 20 years, Pakistan has consistently ranked among the top 10 most vulnerable countries on the Climate Risk Index. This year heavy monsoon rains linked to climate change triggered devastating floods across the country that killed over 1500 people, including 399 children. Pakistan has emitted only 0.4% of global carbon emissions since 1959.
In pictures: Passu Glacier in the Hunza Valley, Pakistan
Dr Nousheen Zaidi, Lahore
PAKISTAN: KEY FACTS MELTING GLACIERS
In Pakistan, the main threats at the moment are flooding, landslides and unpredictable and extreme weather changes. The political situation does not help either. When I visited Passu Glacier in the Hunza Valley, you can see the marks of where the glaciers used to be originally. The colouring on the mountain is like a thermometer. It shows you where the ice was at one point, and where it is now. In the last fifty years, the mountains have lost a huge amount of ice. Because of the rising temperatures, the glaciers melt and release water which comes into the villages and causes destruction. That is the gravity of what’s happening in Pakistan. Kamran Shezad, Director of IFEES/Eco Islam
Nosheen, Kinza, Areeba, Misba, Zainab, Anam
TEMPERATURE CHANGE IN PAKISTAN 1901-2001 POPULATION: 225 MILLION TERRITORIAL EMISSIONS: 1 tonne of CO2 per
person
TOP UK IMPORTS FROM PAKISTAN: clothing, fabrics, cereals, vegetables and fruit
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE? A small minority of the world’s population is disproportionately contributing to climate change. Across the world, the top 10% emitters release the most carbon dioxide (CO2), between 21 to 134 tonnes of CO2 per person. But in poorer countries, the bottom 50% of emitters release very little CO2, only between 0.1 and 2 tonnes per person.
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10% RICHEST
Historically, The Global North (USA, Canada, Europe, Israel, Australia, New Zealand and Japan) is responsible for 92% of the CO2 released into the atmosphere (since pre-industrial levels). However, the poorest communities in the world, especially in the Global South, disproportionately suffer the impacts of climate change and are also financially less able to deal with them.
One tenth of the global population is responsible for nearly half of all emissions
Some individuals and groups are responsible for emitting a significantly larger amount of carbon dioxide than others. These carbon inequalities are linked to income, consumption and wealth inequalities within countries and across the world.
Percentage of C02
While the world’s poorest are responsible for about 10% of all emissions`
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EXPLORE ONLINE
Take a look at the Carbon Map website (www.carbonmap.org) to explore an interactive and animated map that compares territorial, consumption and historical carbon emissions and climate change risks and vulnerabilities from around the world. To explore global carbon inequalities between and within countries, including those in the UK, visit the World Inequality Database (https://wid.world)
Aseel - Palestine
Zinneerah - South Africa
REFERENCES: The resources used to create this pamphlet can be consulted here: www.lettersfromtheglobalsouth.org/resources
NOW WHAT?
Scientists and campaigners have drafted a new piece of UK legislation to address the climate-nature crisis to protect people and the planet.
THE CLIMATE AND ECOLOGY BILL if made law, would make sure that the UK: 1 - Tackles the nature and climate crises together 2 - Does its fair share to limit global temperatures rises to 1.5°C or less 3 - Halts and reverses the loss of nature in the UK by 2030 4 - Takes responsibility for the UK’s entire carbon footprint 5 - Stops destroying nature abroad 6 - Assists and retrains people for the jobs of the future 7 - Involves ordinary people in planning a fair way forward Read the Climate and Ecology Bill here: www.zerohour.uk
YOU CAN SUPPORT THE BILL - Write to your local political representatives to ask them to back the CE Bill
- Join our UK-wide network of wonderful campaigners for virtual peer support and guidance - Set up an open letter to your MP (if they don’t yet support the Bill) and ask friends, family, colleagues, local businesses and community groups to sign it - Create events and workshops in support of the CE Bill as a new or existing community group.
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