Rope Exercise: From Greenhouse to Hothouse
What Is It?
An exercise that visually demonstrates and represents the scale of fossil fuel consumption and growth.
Why Do it?
- To demonstrate visually and viscerally the scale of fossil fuel consumption and growth.
- To connect it to the concept of “lag effect.”
- To give a clear sense of the scale of the ongoing ecological crisis.
Time
30 minutes – 45 minutes
Materials needed
- A long rope (50-100 feet)
- Volunteers to hold the rope
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