If you ask young people around your town if they know about environmental issues today can you guess what their answers will be? The majority of children will tell you that they are not aware or that they don’t really care. I believe that this attitude stems from our youth simply not being given the right information. They spend the majority of their time in school learning subjects like math, English, languages and history. Obviously I think that learning these subjects is very important for their future but where do they learn about living responsibly? If we do not teach a child how important it is to recycle or protect our wildlife then how will they know just how bad things are? If we do not educate our children about environmental, animal and other world issues then what kind of a future will they and subsequently their children have?
I have contacted the Department of Education here in the UK to find out if they have any mandatory teaching of these issues on the national curriculum. I am expecting an answer within the next two weeks and depending on that answer I will be taking this topic further.
Education really is the key for this planets future. We can do all we can now to protect it and reverse the damage already done but if the future generations know nothing about this and remain in ignorance then this same crisis will be happening again and again.
BY TRACEY
BY TRACEY
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