Nursery World - Earth matters

The case for an environmentally-aware form of education for children in the face of climate change is made by Rosalyn Spencer 'A radical revisioning of education is required if young people are to develop the values, skills and knowledge needed to become environment decision-makers and help create a fairer more sustainable world.'

'A radical revisioning of education is required if young people are to develop the values, skills and knowledge needed to become environment decision-makers and help create a fairer more sustainable world.'

Mary Tasker, chair of Human Scale Education Thirty years ago we couldn't appreciate the damage that mankind could have created. We had no idea in the 1970s that climate change would become the issue that it has.

Severe warnings have now been issued for the future of our planet.

Biological diversity is declining at a rapid rate and we are losing thousands of species every year. The oceans are changing. Many of the large fish are now gone and we are moving down the fish chain. We are literally 'strip-mining the oceans'. There are many chemicals on this planet that do not belong here and that are causing untold damage to the environment and human health.

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