'We need much, much more, but for now let’s celebrate this opportunity to restore young people’s connection with the natural world – our future quite literally depends on it.' ✍️ Green Party MP CarolineLucas writes for MetroOpinion
But that’s not for a lack of appetite from young people themselves. Government research shows that 83% of children have said that being in nature makes them very happy. After the catastrophe caused by Covid-19, it’s no surprise that getting outside and being immersed in the beauty of the natural world does wonders for both physical and mental health.
This is the perfect opportunity to teach young people more about the riches of the natural world so they can understand the scale of the loss we’re living through, and be equipped with the necessary tools to reverse the damage that my generation and previous ones have caused. And before academic traditionalists mutter their discontent – this is not an offshoot of biology with a bit of geography attached. This is a qualification of real academic rigour, covering intensive field study of whole organisms in their habitat, identification of species, classification and recording processes.
It will also place British natural history in a global context through the study of migratory species. It complements biology and geography – it doesn’t replace them.Indeed, it needs to be accompanied with radical and immediate action to address the wider climate crisis we’re in – a task the Government is currently failing miserably.
When we’ve seen two major IPCC reports – which the UN Secretary-General has described as an ‘atlas of human suffering’ putting us on a ‘
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