--- title: "Global Citizenship" description: "Explore how decisions across borders affect people's lives, including climate justice, forced migration, global health and poverty. Distinguish checkable claims from value judgments. 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Distinguish checkable claims from value judgments. Weigh responsibilities to nearby people and distant strangers. Examine evidence-based giving and effective altruism as one framework for comparing ways to help. Develop a reasoned view and choose safe, practical actions while recognising uncertainty. Subject: Personal & Social Development · Area: Empathy & Social Awareness · Ages 13 to 14 Page: https://lightmysky.com/learn/personal-and-social-development/global-citizenship-mt_5XLhiqmocP ## Lesson: Global citizenship: caring beyond borders You have practised listening and asking respectful questions about other people's lives. Global citizenship applies that care across borders. Decisions in one place can affect people elsewhere. Climate change, forced migration, global health and poverty can involve many countries. Listen to people affected, check what you hear, and consider your responsibilities. Here, citizenship means shared responsibility, not a legal nationality. Burning coal releases carbon dioxide, which adds to global warming. Warming contributes to rising seas and can increase flood risks in low-lying places far from the emissions. Climate justice asks how responsibility, risks and support should be shared. People who contributed little to emissions can still face serious harm. Check evidence about each place rather than assuming everyone's experience is the same. A factual claim says something evidence could show to be true or false. A claim about how many families received aid can be checked against records. A number alone does not make it true. A value judgment says what matters or ought to happen, such as who should receive help first. Check factual claims using reliable sources. Give reasons for value judgments; evidence can inform them without settling every disagreement. Imagine two meal-delivery plans with the same $120 budget. Plan A reaches 8 people and Plan B reaches 20. To find how many more people Plan B reaches, subtract: 20 - 8 = 12. These numbers are made up. Recipient counts do not settle which plan is better overall. Ask whether meals meet people's needs, delivery is safe and records are reliable. Comparing different kinds of help needs more information. *(drawing: Made-up example: both plans have a $120 budget. Plan A delivers meals to 8 people and Plan B to 20.)* Evidence-based giving asks what help achieves. Check results, costs, possible harms and recipients' views. Effective altruism uses evidence and reasoning to compare ways to do good with limited resources, including choices beyond donations. It is one framework you can examine without accepting every part. Estimates can be uncertain, and people can disagree about which benefits matter most. You may feel responsibilities toward family or neighbours and distant strangers at the same time. If a neighbour loses her job while people abroad face famine, both needs can matter. Consider urgency, what you can offer and your reasons. People can choose different balances of nearby and distant help. Young people can check reliable reports, share checked information or ask a trusted adult to help plan a school fundraiser. Check the organisation before collecting or giving money. Donating is not required. Choose an action that fits your time, resources and safety. Say what it might achieve, what remains uncertain and what it cannot solve alone. **Recap.** Global citizenship involves listening across borders, checking claims and weighing responsibilities. Choose safe actions with reasons, and be honest about what they can achieve. ## Practice 8 questions on this page, each with its working shown. ## Needs first - [Respecting Different Cultures](https://lightmysky.com/learn/personal-and-social-development/respecting-different-cultures-mt_DkzsZdyaL2) - [Sympathy Versus Empathy](https://lightmysky.com/learn/personal-and-social-development/sympathy-versus-empathy-mt_VA126P6Wp5) ## Opens up - [Where International Rules Come From](https://lightmysky.com/learn/civics-and-economics/where-international-rules-come-from-mt_prBdcYuLoY)