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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

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