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Environmental Education – a New School Subject?

 You have probably heard about global warming and other environmental problems in the news.

Unfortunately, there are many severe environmental issues many people aren’t aware of.

In my opinion a new subject in school about environmental education would be required to get

people informed and make the world a better place we can be proud of.

Because there are serious environmental issues that threaten many places in the world, I believe

that it is important to talk about a few of them in school. Some current environmental issues are

world hunger, pollution, deforestation and global warming. For example, the concentration of CO 2 in

the atmosphere was increased by 48 percent in comparison to the preindustrial age and the Amazon

River releases almost 20 percent more CO 2 into the atmosphere than it consumes from it.

There are many ways how schools can contribute to fighting the climate crisis. Firstly, they could

teach generation Z more about the greenhouse effect and global warming so teenagers are more

thoughtful and determined to act. They could also go on climate strikes and protests to show

students the importance of stopping global warming.

In my opinion environmental education should become a new school subject. Often people don’t

care about the current issues on earth because they don’t know much about them. Especially in

Austria we don’t see the scars from problems like hunger and global warming as they aren’t as

drastic problems in our country, so many people forget about them. If young people learn more

about environmental issues in school they will hopefully start making changes in their lives to

prevent those problems from escalating.

If you agree with me and want to change your lifestyle in order to improve the environmental state

of our planet, please share this blog with your friends and family and leave an inspiring comment on

the latest global incidents. Additionally, subscribe to my blog if you want to take a stand in favour of

solving our environmental problems.

Let’s not close our eyes to the environmental issues on earth and take action!

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