"I am an agnostic on global warming. It is occurring and mankind has made a contribution, but there's still a lot of debate about how much. We must be careful in our reactions not to damage our resource industries which are critical to our continued growth. We should go as hard as possible on technological solutions and drop our absurd objections to nuclear power." Former prime minister John Howard.
Climate change film An Inconvenient Truth for Australian schools
- Gemma Jones
- From: The Daily Telegraph
- October 27, 2010 12:00AM
CLIMATE change documentary An Inconvenient Truth will be included in the national curriculum as part of a bid to educate students on environmental sustainability across all subjects.
It would be the first time the film following one-time US vice president Al Gore's climate change campaign has been included in the NSW school English curriculum.
Education ministers agreed two years ago a "focus on environmental sustainability would be integrated across the curriculum".
As a result of the agreement, the national curriculum which is due to be finished in December, will contain lessons on climate change and sustainability across English, maths, science and even history.
Under a draft modern history curriculum, there would be lessons on environmental history so "students come to appreciate the demographic and environmental consequences of growth".
In biology, students would learn about "sustainability as a social and environmental issue" and "the effects of climate change".
"There is a place for environmental sustainability in the curriculum, just not in the history section," Opposition education spokesman Adrian Piccoli said.
A spokesman for the Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority said sustainability had a place in modern history studies and English. An Inconvenient Truth was not a required text, but teachers could use it to get students to undertake their own research into its claims
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