climate change education

Teaching planetary warming

Climate change education is instruction about the causes, effects, and responses to global warming and its associated environmental shifts.

The term encompasses formal curricula in schools and informal public awareness efforts: The state recently mandated climate change education in all public schools.

It often includes both scientific literacy and discussion of policy responses.

Opposites
environmental awareness vs. denial/suppression

climate change educationclimate denialism

Rejecting established atmospheric science

climate skepticism · greenwashing · willful ignorance

approach to environmental issues

climate change educationanti-environmentalism

Opposition to ecological protection

subject matter focus

climate change educationvocational training

Job-skill education

religious instruction · job training

Family

climate, change, education, climatic, climates, climatology, climatologist, acclimate, acclimatize

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Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G