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Pollution and Climate: Week 4: Studying Bill Gates's Revised Viewpoint on Climate Change

Pollution and Climate: Week 4: Studying Bill Gates's Revised Viewpoint on Climate Change

Ian Gardiner
Analysis, Climate Change, Discussion, Greenhouse gases, Pollution, Economy, Vocabulary

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Pollution and Climate: Week 4: Studying Bill Gates's Revised Viewpoint on Climate Change

This week, we will continue to read the October 28, 2025 blog post of Bill Gates on his revised viewpoint on Climate Change. You can access the original post (with photos!) below:


Gates Notes for the UN Climate Conference in November 2025 called COP30

Using only 6th Grade English vocabulary, our class reading is a revision of the original article by Chat GPT. Our reading is on this week’s supplementary page linked here:


Pollution and Climate Week 4: Bill Gates's Revised Viewpoint on Climate Change

I invite everyone to spend some time with the vocabulary list at the end of the article. To read the short article summary and its associated vocabulary list, you can click HERE.

We are nearing the end of our Autumn Sessions, which will have its final session on November 29, 2025.

We will be spending several sessions after that, starting on December 6, 2025, on Winter Art, Christmas Art, and Dreaming Big for 2026!

Pollution and Climate Change

Pollution and Climate Change

Ian Gardiner
ChatGPT, Climate Change, Pollution
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Pollution and Climate Change

We will look at 2 articles that I had ChatGPT rewrite for our class and our vocabulary level.

These articles are about pollution and climate change. I have linked them to the supplementary page for this week’s class, which you can find here. (The page will open in a new tab.)

Our focus will be answering the following question:

In your estimation, which is a bigger threat?

1) carbon dioxide emissions from industrial activity

2) unrestrained trash accumulation and storage

3) the increase in the use of environmentally unfriendly plastic

Please think about these options while you read about pollution and climate change.

Pollution and Environmental Policy

Pollution and Environmental Policy

Ian Gardiner
Environment, Plastic Pollution, Greenhouse gases
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We shift our attention toward the existential threat posed by pollution and the environmental policy that is created to counteract the threat of pollution.

In your estimation, which is a bigger threat?

1) carbon dioxide emissions from industrial activity

2) unrestrained trash accumulation and storage

3) the increase in the use of environmentally unfriendly plastic

Please think about these options while you research pollution and environmental policy.