In an essay out today in the AGU journal Eos, @jeffcorbin, Meghan Duffy, @carlyziter and I discuss the urgent need to move beyond the "it's real, it's bad, it's us" approach to climate education. What is desperately needed instead are pathways towards climate action that engage and empower students, while helping to fight the immobility of climate despair.
https://eos.org/opinions/climate-education-that-builds-hope-and-agency-not-fear
@JacquelynGill @jeffcorbin @carlyziter
Perhaps we need to engage student s in to developing real alternatives to a lot of chemical products we get from crude oil
Make it more viable to make ethylene for example.
Post here earlier about making it easier to make solar panels for example, or finding alternatives (if any) to as many products derived from crude oil. or if we can't can we still extract what we need and do something with the rest (e.g we need to extract the fossil fuel chemicals to get at the rest).
By engaging it would help tackle the mental health issues associated with the worry of climate change as students will be engaged in something positive to tackle the issue.
