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On a recent weekday at the University of California, San Diego, students were streaming into all sorts of classes that, in one way or another, would teach them about climate change. There was Psychology of the Climate Crisis, Religion and Ecology, Energy Economics, Writing about Climate Change, and many more.
Since last year, every student enrolling at UCSD must learn about climate change to earn a degree, reports my colleague Olivia Sanchez. The reason, university leaders say, is that climate change is altering life on the planet so profoundly, and reshaping the workforce, that students won't be prepared for future careers unless they understand it.
Even as President Donald Trump calls climate change a hoax, and cuts funding for efforts to research and fight it, more universities are requiring students to gain knowledge about environmental threats, Olivia reports. Arizona State University began requiring that students take a class in sustainability last year, for example, while San Francisco State University added a climate justice class requirement that began this fall. |
