Beside the issues happening to the environment of the Earth, the author raises the subject matter of fact on the media which is also the best elute to world culture, which makes substantial deterioration of living morality and our way of life are profoundly unsustainable. First, the author demonstrates that in order to solve these problems is to achieve sustainability by enacting stricter laws or monopolizing around great or small catastrophes.
As noted by Franz Reach, “A sustainable society will only be achieved through a social process of searching, learning and shaping. ” Similarly, it is an educational process or the role of education which plays the important role in order to sustain in the future for the human living y putting forward the vital role of environmental education in the preservation and improvement of the world’s environment, as well as in the sound and balanced development of the world’s communities. Hereby, the author focuses on the sustainability movement that is to achieve ecologically sustainable societies and economies by transforming the cultural and environmental education. However, it cannot be possible to achieve if the institutionalized education has not moved forward. Therefore, they create the programs which mainly focus on environmental science and social policy in order to limit the damage of human activities. “What are humans for? ” is the question addressed by Wendell Berry.
In response to this question, the author pointed out to education which enabled acculturation and colonization to maintain the community health and the ones who are educated are human beings. In Industrial Age, human viewed nature as an inexhaustible grocery store which far thinking from traditional societies. The author shows the revolutionary scientific realization of the last century as the profound interdependence of all life – changing toward an understanding of nature as alive, elf-organizing, intelligent, conscious or sentient and participatory at all levels. Because human beings as one part of a complex, dynamic and deeply interdependent natural world, thus sustainability derives from profound shifts in how we perceive our world, our role within it, and our relationship to it. The author explained that humans are place-based creatures-?shaping and shaped by the places we Innate our Levers cultures are ten products AT our Interactions Walt particular places. Cultures that sustain their vitality and viability have developed raciest appropriate to their place, and rituals, moral systems, songs and stories that sustain those practices.
In addition, the author pointed out about of the Industrial Age and its universal, place-blind culture, we are increasingly losing the ability to develop and maintain appropriate relations with place. Thus, beyond environmental education, the replacement of the term “environmental education” used as “education for sustainability’ which reflect the sustainability movement’s recognition that in an ecological world, healthy ecosystems, healthy communities and lately economies are inextricably intertwined.
Therefore, education for sustainability focuses on place-based or ecological education connote and “an emphasis on the inescapable embeddings of human beings in natural systems” (Smith and Williams). Lastly, the author showed about his own experience and raises his own perceptions: (1) Humans have a value-adding role to play within the natural world. (2) In order to prepare for this role, we need to learn how to think like natural or living systems. (3) Then we need to develop the capability to translate systemic thinking into holistic activities.
Indeed, education is connecting learning with sustainable living which nowadays is threatening by the drastic deterioration of the human value through their behave towards the world and global environment system which lead to doomsday predictions if not taken measure to make better living condition through education and enabling the strict rule and cultivating the conservative roles to human beings within the natural world. If you would like to read this article, the reference is: Wendell Berry, (1992) Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays, Pantheon