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To fight climate change, we need to change mindset, behavior
Indonesia has seen forest fires and deforestation as a result of a lack of public awareness, if not ignorance, about the effects of climate change, as well as the government's slow responsiveness to the implementation of green governance, forest conservation and green economy policies.
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Dedicated teacher: Intan teaches her students and young scientists on the importance of understanding paleoclimatology to solve the present climate change challenges. (Courtesy of Intan Suci Nurhati/-)
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limate change education is now more critical than ever to mitigating climate change. The urgent need for climate change response is a call for global citizens to respond in a variety of ways, including learning about how climate change affects their lives, what they can do to protect themselves from the harmful consequences and how they can reduce activities that contribute to climate change.
Global citizens can shift their mindset, attitudes and behavior through this type of education. The significant decisions they make now are the result of the educational processes they have gone through.
Climate change education is an investment in initiating self-transformation toward a love of the environment and nature as either a community entity or ecosystem that is intrinsically linked. It is gradually deteriorating, however, as a result of humans' massive and expanded activities, which cause major problems such as solar radiation, high temperatures and ice-cap melting, to mention only a few.
Another terrifying effect of climate change is sea level rise, which is rapidly highlighting the threat of cities worldwide collapsing as a result of climate crisis, including Jakarta (The Jakarta Post, Feb. 29, 2021). Climate change will cause calamities in 2050, according to the World Bank, including decreasing agricultural productivity, water scarcity and rising sea levels. In addition, 216 million people will be forced to flee their homes and countries (the Post, Sept. 15, 2021).
The UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, which ended Friday, failed to reaffirm a consensus commitment to address global climate change. The world's ambition to be carbon-free by 2050 must be reconciled with the current acceleration of climate change emergency solutions.
Countries must take immediate action by implementing Thomas L. Friedman's green revolution policy, which calls for a green movement to take the lead in moral leadership through climate change education, as a long-term strategy that prioritizes energy efficiency systems, climate power literacy, ocean conservation, forests and biodiversity.
The implication is that the direction of climate change education policies, theories and practices will be experienced gradually and in a deliberate manner by the younger generation.
