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 the amount of fertile land to live off. In order to increase the yields from crops you decide to grow tobacco as it is a cash crop. This increases your profit when the weather is right for growing but also cannot feed your family. When the weather is bad you cannot grow tobacco or food.

> POLITICIAN FROM VIETNAM. You are an economic minister in Vietnam. Developmental strategies for economic growth are made more difficult by following global warming policies. Vietnam could lose 11% of its GDP as climate change could affect agriculture, tourism and fishing in the region. If you choose to invest in industries that are profitable it is good for your country's economy and brings up the quality of life in Vietnam but investing in these same industries contributes to global warming. You think whatever happens you will be voted out and lose your job.

> REFUGEE FROM SYRIA. You are a refugee fleeing the conflict in Syria with your family, this conflict was exacerbated by droughts in the region caused by climate change. You and your family are now in a refugee camp in a much colder winter than normal. Your camp has covid-19 cases and testing kits and medication are not available, as supplies cannot get to you as there are unprecedented storms at sea.

> LITHIUM MINER IN BOLIVIA. You mine lithium from salt deserts for phone and electric car batteries. The mining is increasing droughts which threatens livestock farming and leads to vegetation drying out. New green methods of mining lithium threaten your livelihood as you have invested in the mining of lithium.

IN PRACTICE: The Pionniers of Mali have planted a tree nursery for the protection from erosion and advancing of the sea, which they reforest every August.