While the IPCC is releasing its latest report on climate change, the children of “franceinfo junior” are talking about protecting the oceans. To answer children’s questions: Pascaline Bourgain, head of the educational platform at the Tara Océan Foundation.
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On Monday March 20, IPCC experts released their report, the latest consensus on global warming, which warns of the current and future situation. A climate change that has an impact on the oceans in particular.
Climate: we are witnessing unprecedented climate change for 125,000 years, according to the IPCC
This week also takes place the “Monaco Ocean Week”, an operation to raise awareness of the general public and institutions to the preservation of the oceans. We talk about it in franceinfo junior with Pascaline Bourgain, head of the educational platform at the Tara Ocean Foundation. At the microphone, she answers questions from students at the Jacques Prévert school in Meyzieu in the Rhône.
“If I pee in the sea, does it pollute?”
At the microphone of franceinfo junior, Abdel-Jawad first wants to know why we are talking about ocean pollution. Faustine in turn asks a question: “Today the oceans are polluted, but have they ever been more polluted?”, asks the schoolgirl. Seydou wants to know if the oceans are more polluted than the continents. “If I pee in the ocean, does it pollute?”, worries Mariam. Children are also interested in solutions to help the oceans. For example, Ilhem heard of “boats that clean the oceans”he wants to know if it works.
On this page, re-listen in full to this franceinfo junior program on the protection of the oceans.