the role of women in the face of climate change
(Dr Franca Colozzo)
The role of women in the face of climate change is not negligible as, at least in Western societies, richer and more technologically advanced, they have consolidated consumerist habits and incorrect behavior. Faced with the unconditional use of weapons and explosives, which involve a substantial source of pollutants together with harmful CO2 emissions and the greenhouse effect, women have also adopted completely incorrect life models, aping, for example. in Europe, American disposable lifestyles.
The pressures exerted by women, especially the younger ones, who live in a society without values and traditions consolidated over time, at the mercy of consumerist and misleading propaganda, have contributed to forms of waste, such as throwing away food, using myriads of household appliances, making exorbitant demands on one’s classmates, easily using and throwing away everyday objects and mimicking what is advertised on social media. The female attitude seems irrelevant, yet it is a devastating multiplicative factor in the face of a substantial education in Home Economics, a subject that was taught around the 1960s in Italian schools, then supplanted by Technical Education and later Technological Education. There is very little left of this last teaching subject since the segment of students, male and female, who approach IT and use it without in-depth knowledge, appears increasingly ignorant.
Therefore, I view with serious concern the advent of Artificial Intelligence in the hands of people who are highly unprepared and incapable of solving mathematics problems or simple arithmetic operations. My experience as a teacher of technological education in the first years of teaching, after having passed numerous exams and having attended over 30 courses over the long term, has led me to understand how difficult the approach to technological subjects is for young people who love everything right away.
To conclude, I believe that women, as mothers and main protagonists in raising children, should have an important role in making an environmental change by setting their example as a guide in the evolution of society. Especially today, when they hold increasingly demanding and important leadership roles, women should question themselves about their ethical mission in the social sphere and what direction to give to their offspring to ensure that the new generation is educated in ecological and environmentalist values. Ultimately, climate change is essentially the fault of industrial civilization starting from the end of the 19th century with the surge that in 1990 with further scientific advancement, the invention of plastic, and the use of nuclear energy in the energy field, unfortunately also war, etc.I believe that a great turning point can be given by a form of awareness on the part of women to start, together with men, a new awareness of the role that humanity must play within planet Earth to safeguard not only the human race but also all other life forms that exist in the world, both on land, in the air and in the oceans.
Education is much more than a blackboard, a mind, and a notebook… it is learning to Do, to Think, to Feel, and to Communicate. It is about connecting with our surroundings and developing good coexistence practices. It is everything we learn when we learn…
Marta@globalpeaceketstalk.org
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