The pandemic is a tough lesson in the workings of the natural world - and proves how vital a knowledge of ecology really isImagine mentioning William Shakespeare to a university graduate and discovering they had never heard of him. You would be incredulous. But it's common and acceptable not to know what an arthropod is, or a vertebrate, or to be unable to explain the difference between an insect and spider. No one is embarrassed when a "well-educated" person cannot provide even a rough explanation of the greenhouse effect, the carbon cycle or the water cycle, or of how soils form.All this is knowledge as basic as being aware that Shakespeare was a playwright. Yet ignorance of such earthy matters sometimes seems to be worn as a badge of sophistication. I love Shakespeare, and I believe the world would be a poorer and a sadder place without him. But we would survive. The issues about which most people live in ignorance are, by contrast, matters of life and death. Continue reading...
Coronavirus shows us it's time to rethink everything. Let's start with education | George Monbiot
12. května 2020 17:30
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Celý článek: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/12/coronavirus-education-pandemic-natural-world-ecology
Zdroj: The Guardian