The issue of climate change has large implications towards every sector of society and to every person from all walks of life. In an attempt to learn about the negative effects of climate change and how we can all work together to counteract these, experts now believe that climate change is an educational issue as well. Now, an ever-increasing number students are beginning to understand how climate change affects us adversely and the extent to which it does.
It is saddening to learn that a lot of people are still uneducated on climate change, as per Live Mint. Studies find that 7 out of 10 Americans are not very concerned about how climate change can hurt us. Yale researchers have even found out that 40% of adults have never even heard of climate change and what it is. This is much worse in less developed countries, for example in India, wherein this figure rises up to about 65%.
According to a report from The Daily Star, education and climate change can work together in three distinct ways. The first way is that education is a primary way of filling knowledge gaps. As mentioned before, there are still a lot of people who have no clue about climate change, but education can change all of that. If these education gaps were to be sufficiently filled, people could prepare themselves for the disasters that can be brought about by the changing climate.
Another way is by challenging apathy because understanding how the climate is changing can be crucial to the economy, especially in sectors such as agriculture. This also relates to the third way that education and climate change can work together, which is through innovation. This would allow us to build a better future, which would be less affected by the negativity of climate change and global warming.
