Climate Change Should Be Taught In Public Schools

It is no longer a question whether or not climate change is real, instead we must ask ourselves what we can do to prevent it from worsening further. Because, according to NASA, the climate warming trends over the last century have a 95% probability of being a direct result of human activity since mid-nineteenth century, it is humanity’s responsibility to forestall further damage. Climate change is wholly responsible for rising temperatures, extreme weather patterns, diminishing glaciers, increased amount of natural disasters, and rising sea-levels, all of which are detrimental to humanity. Since the Industrial Revolution, society’s output of “greenhouse gases,” such as carbon dioxide, water vapor, and nitrous oxide has changed Earth’s natural

Allowing the causes and effects of climate change to be taught in public schools is a major step in changing society’s outlook on climate change. School Districts should be encouraging students to learn how to prevent the effects of climate change rather than refusing to teach it as part of curriculum; members of the Quakertown School Board have recently been criticized for refusing to buy textbooks that explain climate change. Meanwhile, Quakertown Borough has information regarding how to conserve water and energy featured on their website. In addition, personally investing in solar panels or other clean energy to fuel individual needs is helpful in the prevention of further climate change despite being minor. As a nation, remaining part of the Paris Agreement would have been beneficial in the prevention of climate change, however we can still make an effort to reduce the use of nonrenewable resources by employing clean energy solutions, like solar and wind power, whenever possible. In the end, any effort towards preventing further climate change and global warming is progress, the sooner we achieve international cooperation, the sooner we will be able to successfully combat the effects of climate