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- Title: Teaching About Sustainability (Essay)
- Author : Teacher Education Quarterly
- Release Date : January 22, 2010
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 170 KB
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During a summer symposium about ecological education more than a decade ago, David Orr, a professor of environmental studies at Oberlin College, suggested that humanity is now like a person experiencing a heart attack. Deteriorating environmental conditions threaten our species' future, and we've got to do whatever we can to take corrective measures. The first step is to stabilize the patient, and for a heart attack victim, this means drawing on all available technologies--defibrillators, emergency angioplasty, or clot-busting drugs. But these actions can do no more than prevent the patient from dying. They won't stop another attack. That will happen only when the patient adopts significant changes in lifestyle: altered diet, a regular exercise regime, reduced stress. Orr argued that as much as human beings may hope for a technological solution to problems like resource exhaustion, pollution, or climate change, technology will only go so far. What ultimately is required is a transformation of our way of life and our beliefs about humanity's relationship with the planet. Defining Terms