Affiliations: [a] Center for Environment and Development, Thiruvananthapuram – 695013, Kerala, India | [b] Department of Geology, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram – 695581, India | [c] Department of Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI – 49931, USA | [d] Central Ground Water Board, Kerala Region, Thiruvananthapuram – 695004, India
Abstract: In developing countries and to a certain degree in developed countries too, either climate change (CC) consequences or drivers of CC are alien to the mindset of commoners, who after High School had with/without vocational skills entered the workforce. This deficit or ignorance can be rectified only by adding CC education in the school system. We present a school appropriate outline of CC learning content spanning Kinder Garten to High School. Adding CC content in school education is immensely warranted, as a large chunk of high schoolers annually joins the work force with or without vocational or skill training. Further, such a knowledge deficit among the generations of working class can be remedied only by providing appropriate and sufficient knowledge on CC consequences, etc., only through a structured adult education campaign.
Keywords: Climate change sciences, Climate change learning, School curriculum and Skill training
