should climate change be taught at school ?

Answer 1

How can we teach something in school that the government denies exists. True there were those reports recently, but those were all private and not government reports. Their reaction so far has been status quo. So as they would say "We will not teach our children what cannot be said as fact." Even though the facts can be seen as close as your own backyard. Although eventually I certainly hope it will be. Maybe our children won't be as stubborn as us, in regards to how we affect our world. If they even have a world worth affecting anymore.

Answer 2

Yes. Climate change is affecting all of us at an accelerating rate but we can have an effect on the rate and extent of climate change by the decisions and actions we take today. It is critical that we understand what it is, how it will affect the environment, economy and society in general, so that governments, corporations and individuals can take educated and informed decisions about how we use energy, how we use renewable resources such as forests, how we farm, what we do with our waste products, etc. There is no more important topic that should be included in the formal education system at specific grade levels from elementary to high school levels and beyond. This topic should not only be included in the science curriculum but also in the social studies curriculum, math curriculum, etc. It is one of the 22 sustainable development topic areas that UNESCO has included for formal, informal and nonformal education under the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-14).

Answer 3

Absolutely! There are many important reasons why it should be taught in school. For one thing, all children need to be taught that climate change has been happening from the beginning of the age. There have been ice ages, dry and moist periods of time and climate changes due to natural circumstances such as volcanos and asteriods hitting the earth. There have also been climate changes which have happened due to human involvement. Human beings are effecting nature (burning trees rainforests without replacing them, polluting the air and water, introducing poisons to the planet) and is causing a lot of change in our planet`s climate. Like it or not, the climate IS changing constantly from many variety of factors.

The more we learn about climate change, the more we can understand what causes it and how we can change our environment to decrease it`s effects or learn to adapt to it in the future. This knowledge is paramount for the survival of the next several generations who will ultimately either have to learn to deal with it or adapt to it!

Answer 4

Hey i am doing my gcse's i'm in yr 10 and we are taught about climate change maybe some schools still use the old syllabus thats why not all schools may teach about climate change.

Answer 5

I think it depends on the level of student you are considering here - what one includes in a Primary curricuulum differs drastically from what high school students ought to be studying.
Climate change, over-population, conservation of resources, industrialization - all these phenomenon are topics for research and discussion at the high school, and perhaps at the grades 7-8 levels. Normally the younger grades are learning about the biospherical systems - and the cultural/social world so that lookinga at change and the effects of change can be understood later in school.
The question is far to simplified to answer easily. My first question when I read the topic was, "Teach WHAT about climate change??????? ....and to whom??? ...and to what end?"
We've been teaching students for a LONG TIME to recognize, understand and respect the natural world we are inhabiting. If we understand and respect our environment, then we may be able to face the challenges of whatever changes are happening as we consume resources and build more and more structures in it, etc.

Answer 6

If we fail to teach this generation about the climate change we have inadvertently caused - but now continue to cause knowlngly because we are not yet resolved to make the changes it will take to slow it - we are depriving them of a chance to live more envirionmentally sustainable lives. We are, in effect, refusing them a chance to change in the time climate scientists now tell us change - big change - will be necessary. Climate scientists agree on this. Business and oil interests work hard to make sure we think there's still "a debate." But scientifically, the debate is over (see references). We have to change. Urgently, starting now.
Public education is a training ground for the global economy. Sure, it's also personally enriching in some ways, but it takes care to avoid the political (as in contentious), economic critique, and uncomfortable environmetnal issues that might point fingers at polluters who continue to get away with it. It also avoids explaining what 'sustainable' means - as in living within the carrying capacity of the Earth, because this would lead to a quick realization that we are consuming our way into oblivion. Which is very pleasant while it lasts ("eat, drink and be merry..."). We are all continuing to enjoy, and avoid teaching about, our continuing "free lunch" at the expense of the Earth systems on which our species - and all the other species depend. Shopping is fun, and it makes shareholders rich. Slowing it down would take a new philosophy of "enough," and a new economy of shared benefits. The money right now is all going to the top. The economic system is designed that way.
The planet Earth is a "closed system." Six billion people can't engage in unlimted growth. It's common sense as well as science. Even the billion or so richest of us can't afford to keep on doing this, pouring out carbon dioxide as the currency of our comfort and fun.
There are lots of things we can do to reduce carbon emissions. And teach kids to do. Some are relatively easy. Some take more determination and/or actual investment. Like smaller cars, insulation, quality things that last longer and don't create so much energy consumption and waste. We can eat local, organic food (less transportation, fewer fossil-fuel based chemicals including harmful pesticiees and herbicides), we can vacation closer to home, we can turn the heat down and wear cozy sweathers, we can amuse ourselves in ways that are conscientiously carbon-free. We can, over time, build sustainable walkable communities, with real centers, where people meet, shop, share, socialize, drink, eat, pray, exercise, work. Community scale before oil was sustainable.
Right now we live in our separate, often suburban, "energy bubbles." It takes a lot of fossil-fuel based "energy slaves" to keep us in the comfort, consumption and separateness of our current lifestyles. Driving huge cars. Pouring carbon into the atmosphere.
So if we want to stay within a couple safe degrees of global warming, we need everyone on side. Climate change mitigation, like science, needs to be the new core of sustaianble education. We have to teach it, and we have to act together to acatually work on it while we do. It will be work, but it's work well worth it.
If we have enough courage to care about the kids and their future.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Yes, it is important to teach that ...and in addition to the reasons given already, I think we all should be more aware of the problem of nuclear waste .... and the children should know about that also ... I think that the answer given here that sketches in all the various elements of change since the beginning of this age is a very nice one because the writer is aware of various elements, and we should all have such knowledge at our finger tips...

Answer 9

Only if both sides are presented.

Climate change currently is taught here during certain years as part of the science program. Unfortunately, only one side is being presented.

Answer 10

Yes. Because children should be brought up knowing everything about it and what, when and how this problem came about. We regard children as tommorow"s leaders and given the way some world leaders are behaving towards this issue, our only hope of finding a solution is in our children.