Projects on Natural Hazards, Human Impact and Earth's Resources at School

ABSTRACT EGU2026 
“Projects on Natural Hazards, Human Impact and Earth's Resources at School” 
Author: Fatbardha Sulaj (teacher of Biology and Chemistry) email: fatbardhasulaj@yahoo.com 
Shkolla e Bashkuar “Dervish Hekali” Hekal,Mallakatër,Albania 
The globe is in the midst of a great dilemma of survival and destruction due to the fact that human 
beings ignore its maintenance and care every day. The earth has become like a "toy" in the hands 
of man, who, to satisfy his ego, continues to "play", to exercise power and has disrespect for his 
shelter, the Earth. Man has all the responsibility for the devastation of the natural, biological, 
economic balances, the responsibility for the destruction of the biodiversity of the globe. 
How does man interact with the Earth? He simply looks at the earth in a short-term way, not in a 
long-term perspective, consider Earth an object of exploitation; he thinks about the ways how to 
benefit from it, how to make profit, or how to have comfort without caring about the balances 
and their existence. 
Today the land is green, with masses of water, different shapes of Earth’s surfaces which makes a 
perfect animal and plant biodiversity possible. We don't know what the future will look like. 
Warnings are rather loud, but who hears them? 
What if we destroy mountains to pave roads, tunnels, is the Earth damaged? 
Let's think about our planet without mountains. - How would it be? 
What would happen to our planet and what consequences would we have? 
Mountains as climate regulators would affect every aspect of our lives, from climate change to 
landslides, corrosion, floods, desertification, removal of barriers, unification of cultures, 
weakening of the food chain, extinction of biodiversity, economic decline, gradually turning Earth 
into an uninhabitable planet. 
Nature often challenges man, floods, sinks, shifts tectonic plates, creates earthquakes but behind 
them there is again the human being, we must save nature and, thus, we should act in an 
intelligent and responsible way. 
Just as the creation of the Earth shows a mystical and scientific way, destruction does the same. 
Methods that raise students' awareness and increase creativity and encourage them to find 
effective solutions to these issues are: 
1 Visual presentations 
2 Showing documentaries or short films 
3 Personal stories 
4 Real-time data 
5 Field trips a) a mountain being destroyed for stone extraction, b) a river that floods its bed, 
c) a forest that is burning… 
6 Exchange with experts of the field 
7 Emphasis on solutions 
8 Emphasis on examples of individual success 
9 Open discussions 
10 Call for action 
This represents the final phase of the entire lecture on “Projects on Natural Hazards, Human 
Impact and Earth's Resources at School”.