In Earth in the Balance, Vice President Al Gore said "the rescue of the environment the central organizing principle for civilization." In the past 150 years, earth's resources have been abused and people do not know how to deal with the effects of not treating the earth right. In Educating for the Environment: Higher Education's Challenge of the Next Century, David W. Orr states that people now being educated must learn how to take care of the planet: keep the population stabilized, deal with the diminishing ozone layer, protect natural forests, and natural resources, etc. They have to do this all at the same time while they decrease social, ethnic and racial conflicts.
The young must, understand the differences between what is good for the earth and not. They must make wiser choices then the generations before. Educators should reform the schools to better teach the kids how to deal with the problems with environment.
But educators still educate the young, like there is nothing wrong with th
e planet. People think that technology would help the environmental problems, it may, but the beginning of the problem starts in the mind of the person. It is how the person thinks and feels about the earth. So people must be taught in the mind so they would understand how to take care of the environment. It is ironic that all the colleges and universities know about all these environmental problems, and do anything about it. Why don't people with higher education teach the young as soon as possible? There are three primary reasons:
2) We want to educate the young because we want them to make things that would fit in earth harmonious with other things. In order to do this, we have to teach them about large patterns. You have to build with the earth, and understand each and every aspect of earth for it to not have any conflicts with earth. This requires a liberal education.
b. Buying - Colleges and Universities buy thing without thinking about their environmental impacts. People must be
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