Building a Sustainable Culture Through Education

Hello Reddit community! I do not know where to start, so I suppose I'll just jump right to explaining myself. As someone who is very concerned with climate change, I feel more motivated now than ever to do my part in helping curb the problem. Wait, did I just say climate change? What does that have to do with education? Well, I'll get there -- but first, climate change. It's getting bad. Greenhouse gas emissions need to be cut drastically, this includes cutting fossil fuel use by half within the next 15 years. Staple crops are becoming more difficult to grow due to drought so we're looking at massive food shortages unless bioengineered crops take off. And, lets say they do. There's still no telling how affordable those are going to be. Will nutritious food become a luxury for only the rich? Natural disasters are on the rise because with an unstable climate comes increasingly more unpredictable weather. When disasters do strike, they often adversely affect those who have contributed the least to climate change and leave communities like Puerto Rico shattered for extended periods of time with little to no help from "allied" countries who are to greedy to lend a helping hand. This is mirrored in education as we see the linear correlation between low income communities and low quality of education. I believe that if all children had access to a quality education, it would be better for our planet. I'm not going to go into detail on the why's there; but for more of my ideas on the links between education and climate change, i'll link a paper I wrote on the idea.

My idea for a solution is to create a k-12 homeschooling alternative that would be free and accessible to any person in any country. This would mean an online model and an alternate model comprised of series of books. I know this is a far-fetched sounding idea, but it is just a seedling right now. I'm posting here because I believe there is so much to be done on our planet. Not a single person should be trying to inhabit Mars until every person on Earth is out of poverty; and I think the first step toward that vision is making education available to all. If anyone finds this interesting or is wants to help develop the idea, PLEASE COMMENT. I would love for a team of like-minded people to help me build and launch this idea.

Submitted October 28, 2018 at 01:38PM by cdubo11 https://ift.tt/2EPcbNW