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Fighting Carbon with Carbon: The Battle Against Climate Change

Updated: Mar 28, 2022

Museums across London are highlighting the fight back against our planet’s greatest threat – climate change.


Climate change, global warming, pollution – we’ve all heard of it. It’s a frightening thing, and a very real threat to our planet. We visited some exhibits in museums across London to learn more about it, and how we’re fighting back.



Our Broken Planet

Museum Photos by Alex Josiah; Forest Fire by Karsten Winegeart / Unsplash Coral Bleaching by Thomas Owen / Unsplash; Plastic Pollution and Juvenile Fish by Naja Bertolt Jensen / Unsplash

The Natural History Museum provides an insight into how we’ve negatively affected our planet.



Destroying Wildlife

Museum photos by Alex Josiah; Black Bee by Wolfgang Hasselmann / Unsplash; Whale Spotting Kaikoura by Iswanto Arif / Unsplash; Trash Patrol by Tim Mossholder / Unsplash

Extinct bee species, bird nests made from plastic, dying oceans — wildlife is affected in ways you may not have realised.



The Facts

Bushfires below Stacks Bluff, Tasmania, Australia by Matt Palmer / Unsplash

These statistics are worrying – but it’s not all doom and gloom.



How are we Helping?

Plucking Carbon from the Air


Museum Photos by Alex Josiah

These Climeworks units shown at the Science Museum, can remove 50 tonnes of Co2 from the air each year.



Fighting Carbon With Carbon

Museum Photos by Alex Josiah; Power Plant by Michal Pech / Unsplash

Scientists are working on repurposing emissions. These products & plastics are all made with repurposed carbon. They’re also beginning to recycle emissions to fuel power stations.


Mechanical Trees? You Read That Right

Museum Photos by Alex Josiah; Looking Up by Casey Horner / Unsplash

This impressive contraption mimics the function of trees, using artificial photosynthesis to produce oxygen.



We CAN Make a Difference

Museum Photos by Alex Josiah

An optimistic end to both exhibitions, which shows the public committing to help out – and you can too.



Check out our video on how to live a sustainable life by Lizzie Smith:






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