Irish schools fail to teach climate change
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Irish schools fail to teach climate change
May 10th, 2019, by Kieran Cooke
Students at Irish schools are being let down by the countrys education system, say lawmakers demanding full climate change literacy.
DUBLIN, 10 May, 2019 ? Theres a yawning gap in Irish schools, say the countrys legislators: theyre just not telling the new generation what it needs to know about climate change, although
young people in many countries are on the march, protesting against governments inaction on the mounting problems associated with the issue.
Inspired in part by the actions of people like
Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish schoolgirl who has very publicly challenged world leaders to act to prevent climate meltdown, the young around the world are demanding urgent action.
Now a
hard-hitting report by the Oireachtas or Parliament Joint Committee on Climate Action (JCCA), an all-party group, says that must change. Schools, says the report, must ensure that the next generation is fully literate on the subject of climate change.