fact & opinion – Rupert
Rising seas threaten cities

Climate change comes up quite often. I think that what’s essential is that we realise children and young people are talking about climate change as a key issue.  They know it’s out there.  They’re seeing it on the news, and news round, and they are discussing it even sometimes in their classes. But it’s – essentially what’s exciting about using the earth balloon, you can see many of the world’s great cities lie on the coast.  And really when we discuss how – if the Greenland ice sheet does melt, which is one of the projections being made through some of the modelling, that would lead to a 7 metre rise in sea level, which is going to inundate many cities like London, New York – many of the world’s great cities.  They’re at the centre of our civilization.  So the earth balloon lends itself in that way.