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Importance of Climate Literacy-by Daya Dissanayake Source:Dailynews It is a very tragic confession, if Earth Day organisers have to admit they too have failed. Judging by the statement released by Dr. Tracey Ann Ritchie and the EARTHDAY‍.ORG Education Department, “We can’t expect to solve the climate crisis if we don’t learn about it….Since the first Earth Day in 1970, three billion students have graduated from high school or equivalent worldwide without the fundamental skills and critical thinking necessary to effectively steward the Earth. We have stranded them by failing to educate them on the interplay between the environment and their own lives. We have not prepared them to participate in their communities. We have not equipped them with the skills necessary to build a green economy.” Half a century after we began Earth Day events, if society has failed to provide Climate Literacy among young people, we need to re-think ...