The Horse 2019/20

Our experience about this project:

We are concerned with the question "What does the world look like in 100 years?"

We wanted to do an interview with a climate scientist, a food scientist and a biologist. This   turned out to be more difficult than planned. Some didn't have time for the interview and the others didn't respond to our emails. Fortunately, we finally found three scientist. At the end of December we received all answers to the interview. 

During a lesson we asked the class to write or draw down on a sheet how they imagine food, climate and plants in 100 years. 

When we evaluated (ausgewertet) the results from the students and scientist we found out that the answers were very similar. 

What surprised us most was that everyone imagines that the world will develop negatively!

We look forward to publish our results.

Emanuela D'Andrea and Vanessa Nauer

We conducted an interview with Dr. Eva Waiblinger. She is Zoologist, science journalist, author of horror, science ficion stories and mathematics teacher at the WKVW & BMZ.

Summary of questions and answers

1. Close your eyes and describe the world in 100 years according to your personal imagination and research knowledge

The earth will get warmer, the avarage temperature will increase. There will be several weather pattern and the sea levels wil rise. Eventually humans will die out. If the insect mass continues to decline, all birds that depend on insect for brood care will become extinct. If humans survive, there will be a population collapse (food shortage, wars).

2. How will the plants change/develop?

Due to the extingtion of pollinatior insects, many flowering plant will die out. Short-lived plants will survive and long-lived plants, like trees, disappear.

3. Compared to the last years, there are more forest fieres, plants that disappear and other things?

Yes, drought and forest fire are increasing.

4.  What effects can be expected?

Crises in the supply of food. Increased risk of resource wars.

5. What are the causes and what could be done about it?

Climate warming through greenhouse gases and insects die. Plant all avaiable areas with native plant species. A mixture of incentive systems (direct payments, tax reductions) for low carbon behaviour and high taxation of CO2 emissions, in private life as well as industry and agriculture.

You can find the whole interview here

Emanuela D'Andrea and Vanessa Nauer

We conducted an interview with Mrs Fabienne Michel. She studied food science at the ETH and is now doing a doctorate at the institute for environmental decisions and consumer behavior.

Summary of questions and answers

1. Close you eyes and describe the world in 100 years according to your personal imagination and research knowledge

Most buildings will be renovated to store heat in winter and keep out the heat in summer. Via sensors in the body we are informed if something is missing or unusual happens. Personalized nutritional recommendations will enable us to provide our body with exactly the substances it needs at any given time.

2. How will the food develop?

 In the future, nutrition will be more personalised than today. Everyone will know exactly how many carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins and other things their body needs. Your own needs for these substances will be covered with drinks and food specially produced for one. In order to limit climate change, to take care of the environment and out of the conviction that animals should not suffer, the majority of people will eat vegetable food.

3. Do you think the insects will play an important role in human nutrition?

The insects wil not prevail as food in our culture. But it can be for the production of dog and cat food. So that no other animals would have to be slaughtered for this feed.

4. How will artificial food develop and will people in the future eat more and more of this kind of food?

For her as a food scientist it is difficult to answer this question. Because the term "artificial food" is very difficult to grasp. For example, it will be possible to buc meat from the laboratory. Provided that the laboratory meat is cheaper, tasted at least as good  and if possible healthier than conventional meat.

5. Could you imagine it will develop in a completely different direction? If yes, which?

With the current ecological efforts, it could be that more people will grow and cook their own food again. In this way, awareness of food and its ingredients is increased and the responsible use of food is promoted.

Here you can find the whole interview.

Emanuela D'Andrea und Vanessa Nauer

We conducted an interview with Prof. Dr. Martin Grosjean. He is a professor at the University of Bern and director ot the climate research center in Bern.

summary questions and answers

1. Close you eyes and describe the world in 100 years according to your personal imagination and research knowledge

In 100 years, the world will probably have 10 - 12 billion people, the rainforests will be largely cleared. The world will not look peaceful because the scarcity of resources, water, food and habitat leads to conflics and wars. Unless every person in Switzerland, in Europe and in the world changes it.

2. How has the climate developed?

The climate has always changed but the fluctuations have remained within a relatively narrow range over the last 10 000 years. Since about 1970, the global climate left the range of natural fluctuations, becoming warmer and more extreme.

3. What is your position on climate change?

For Prof. Dr. Martin Grosjean, global warming is one of the greatest threat. He himself will not feel it as much as his children and grandchildren do.It is high time that young people take to the streets and protest loudly. 

4. What Impact will climate change have on the world in 100 years?

In all countries it will be around 6-8 degrees warmer. Hamburg will have a climate like that of southern Italy today, in areas with water shortages it will be even drier. The Arctic will have thawed and the glaciers in the Alps will have largely disappeared.

5. What could be done about?

We should reduce and avoid everything that produces greenhouse gases and promote renewable energy. For example:

• Be more economical driving a car - use public transport or bicycle.
• Fliying only for professional reasons - holiday flights one time every 10 years and cancel weekend flights
• (More ideas in the pdf document)

6. What else would you like to say on this subject?

Get involved and fight for a future worth living, your future. Talt to colleagues, to adults. There is no reason why today's adult generation should be alloved to take the right to leave a huge problem for today's young generation.

You can find the whole interview here.

Emanuela D'Andrea and Vanessa Nauer

Our goals for today's lessons: 

- Create a questionnaire for a nutritionist and for a biologist.

goal fulfilled

Next step

- Create a questionnaire for children and adults

Emanuela & Vanessa (M17a)

Our goals for today's lessons: 

1st goal: Answer emails from climate researchers and arrange appointments

2nd goal: Create an interview questionnaire for climate researchers (Emanuela and Vanessa)

We have achieved both our goals.

Next step

- Create a questionnaire for a nutritionist and contact a nutritionist (Emanuela)

- Create a questionnaire for a biologist and contact a biologist (Vanessa)

Emanuela & Vanessa (M17a)

Imagine the world in 100 years...

Is the earth really getting warmer?

Are we going to feed on artificial food?

Will there still be such large forest areas?

We imagine the world will getting a few degrees warmer. There will be no more glaciers either. Due to the rising water level, some islands, for example the Maldives, will no longer exist. Also we think that the forest areas will be populated by houses.

We can think of many more thoughts on this topic and there is much more to mention. We want to explore what a teenager, an adult, a child, an economics teacher and a climate physicist think about with interviews. 

If you are interested, sign up for a collaboration.

Environmentally friendly greetings,

Emanuela & Vanessa

As homework we had to calculate the kJ to kWh from a meal.

As an example I chose Pizza Margherita (350g):

1kcal = 4.1868 kJ

1 kJ = 0.001163 kWh

840 kcal = 3516.912 kJ

3516.912 kJ = 4.0901687 kWh

For the calculation I used: from kcal/kJ to kWh - umrechnung.org 

Emanuela D'Andrea, M17a

Short version is better

Verbesserungsvorschläge:

• Record a voice comment is not necessary.
• Question are not clear: Unklar, dass die Fragen mit dem Bild zu tun haben!
• Ortsangabe überflüssig
• you know where you bought it (Migros, Coop etc.) but you don’t know where the food come from: Ist es ethisch/ökologisch hergestellt worden?

Cem, Nathan, Emanuela

This are our advantages of an international collaboration. 

Michel. Mohamed & Emanuela