Have you heard that Michael Gove, Minister for Education, is planning to remove the study of climate change for all children under 14?
Climate change is the most pressing and threatening issue facing us and it will be the youth of today who feel the impacts greater than any generation before. Climate change must be kept in the curriculum in order for young people to be skilled and informed to take on this challenge.
Esha Marwaha is the organiser of a petition to keep climate change on the geography national curriculum for children up to 14 years old. She is a secondary school student from the Heathland School. She has always been fascinated by Geography and it inspired her enough to realise that not only earth is a beautiful place but on that is in desperate need of our help.
In the petition hosted on Change.org, Esha wrote:
“Our government, part of the generation who bear much of the responsibility for this problem, intend to not only fail to act on climate change themselves but to obscure the truth from children and young people. “It is outrageous that Michael Gove can even consider the elimination of climate change education for under 14s. “We must keep climate change in the curriculum in order for young people take on this challenge of tackling the threat posed by our changing climate.”
Over the next two weeks Gove is asking the public what they think – that’s why Syntegra Consulting has signed the petition started by Esha to support her call on Gove to keep climate change on the curriculum.
Please join us by signing her petition here: