What is meant by enviornmental education?

According to the United State Environmental Protection Agency, environmental education "increases public awareness and knowledge about environmental problems or issues. In doing so, it provides the public with the necessary skills to make informed decisions and take responsible action." For children receiving an environmental education, they are given skills to identify and help resolve environmental changes.

Today, we live in such a fast paced, instant society. We forget sometimes to stop, look around, and appreciate the world in which we live in. If you look, its a beautiful place. But, all over the world, forests are being cut down, beautiful coral reefs are being destroyed, animals are becoming endangered, all because we have forgotten we need these things for our earth to survive. If we keep destroying our environments, our will not be able to sustain itself. Who knows what could happen?

It is our job, as future educators, to incorporate environmental education in all forms of education. Not all learning should be able nature and the environment but some of it should! We need to teach younger generations about environmental issues like pollution, global warming, and harmful deforestation. We should remind them of the beautiful world what we live in, make them critically think that if all of our beautiful nature was gone, what would our world look like? We need to encourage them to make good decisions, and try to resolve these environmental changes, to save our planet!