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The document discusses how environmental destruction has increased since the Industrial Revolution and recent floods show the need for greener energy sources. It notes that forests are disappearing, species are going extinct, cities face air pollution, oceans are polluted, and ice caps are melting. While some damage cannot be avoided, human impacts can be corrected if societies adapt quickly enough. Embracing green solutions can minimize damage and advance sustainable progress. Education is important for protecting the environment by encouraging individuals to take action and support political decisions that reduce emissions. Education also provides knowledge and skills to adapt to climate change.

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The document discusses how environmental destruction has increased since the Industrial Revolution and recent floods show the need for greener energy sources. It notes that forests are disappearing, species are going extinct, cities face air pollution, oceans are polluted, and ice caps are melting. While some damage cannot be avoided, human impacts can be corrected if societies adapt quickly enough. Embracing green solutions can minimize damage and advance sustainable progress. Education is important for protecting the environment by encouraging individuals to take action and support political decisions that reduce emissions. Education also provides knowledge and skills to adapt to climate change.

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The document discusses how environmental destruction has increased since the Industrial Revolution and recent floods show the need for greener energy sources. It notes that forests are disappearing, species are going extinct, cities face air pollution, oceans are polluted, and ice caps are melting. While some damage cannot be avoided, human impacts can be corrected if societies adapt quickly enough. Embracing green solutions can minimize damage and advance sustainable progress. Education is important for protecting the environment by encouraging individuals to take action and support political decisions that reduce emissions. Education also provides knowledge and skills to adapt to climate change.

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Destruction of the ecosystem has been rampant since the Industrial Revolution, which

was the turning point in the narrative on climate change.

Recent floods testify to the need of a shift in paradigm and a change in our relations
towards the environment, as well as the importance embracing alternative solutions and
greener energy sources. As we know, the floods have affected the inhabitants living in
city outskirts most severely, leaving them cut off due to poor accessibility. In these
situations, alternative energy sources would significantly assist those in affected areas to
overcome difficult circumstances.

The climate is changing. Forests are disappearing. s everal species of life are turning
extinct every day. Some cities are choking with air-pollution. The ocean is smothered
with pollutants and the ice-caps are melting. Food and water are increasingly polluted.
Some disasters cannot be avoided, but the damage can be reduced. The human factor
and negative impacts can be corrected. The question – increasingly urgent – is whether
we are changing sufficiently quickly as a society and adapting to new conditions.

By making the right choices and embracing green solutions, we minimise potential
damage and advance sustainable progress and development of the country. The future
(both good and bad) is in our hands; the question remains what we choose for ourselves
and our children.

we cannot maintain our quality of life as human beings, the diversity of life on Earth, or
Earth’s ecosystems unless we embrace it. There are indications from all quarters and
from the smallest to the largest scale that creating a sustainable world is something we
must address. We will run out of fossil fuels. Thousands if not millions of animal species
will become extinct. We will run out of lumber. We will damage the atmosphere beyond
repair… If we don’t change.

And the root of that change lies in understanding and striving for sustainability—in our
own homes, in our communities, in our ecosystems, and around the world.

Education encourages individuals to protect the environment.


People with more education tend not only to be more concerned about the environment,
but also to engage in actions that promote and support political decisions that protect
the environment. Such pressure is a vital way of pushing governments towards the type
of binding agreement that is needed to reduce greenhouse gases and control emission
levels.

As it becomes increasingly clear how much human action has impacted environmental
degradation and climate change, especially through the release of greenhouse gases, attention
must turn to education and the need to tap its potential. We are all learners when it comes to the
environment and better ways to protect it and the planet we inhabit. In this sense, the notion of
lifelong learning is especially apt. This trend will be further supported by the new Sustainable
Development Agenda, in which education for global citizenship and sustainable futures is
explicitly prioritised in one of the new education targets.

Despite being threatened by the changing climate, education offers a valuable


opportunity to combat climate change. It gives children and young people the
knowledge and skills to make informed decisions about how to adapt individual lives
and ecological, social or economic systems in a changing environment. Education
plays a vital role in bringing about behavioral change, and schools can play an
important part by becoming carbon neutral, energy efficient and reducing their own
ecological footprint.

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