Mini-Comic

Today's world is undergoing unprecedented levels of inequality, environmental degradation, climate change, and new surges in populism, conflict, economic uncertainty, and mounting health threats. These crises are slowly tipping the balance, causing us to rethink our business-as-usual economic model of recent decades.

The 2020 Coronavirus pandemic may help us better understand our ties to each other on a global scale and help us conquer the most significant public health threat of the 21st century, Climate Change. These health impacts often have clear climate change signatures, such as the frequency and severity of severe weather events or the expansion of the range and spread of diseases like malaria and dengue. Climate change as a factor is less obvious in the case of other pandemics, such as the COVID-19 virus outbreak. 

COVID-19 is well known to many children, but many do not know the pandemic’s effect on climate change. Safety is a top priority for parents and their children. However, once COVID-19 restrictions and lockdowns ended, emissions returned to their normal climb and the brief drop in CO2 emissions had little impact on global temperatures.

In our new mini-comic series 'Trouble Makers', we'll explore climate lessons that scientists have learned from our experiences of living through this pandemic. Children will learn how environmental issues are impacted by and further escalate the spread of animal-borne viruses.