批判性气候教育:探究气候时空正义

Critical Climate Education:Studying Climate Justice in Time and Space

气候危机已经成为当前许多人关注的现实问题,应当为儿童和青年提供有关气候减缓抉择的教育。文章借鉴批判教育学、政治生态学和环境正义的相关理论,建议提供批判性气候教育,它可以为公民提供以负责任的行动应对气候危机的知识和技能。学生们需要学会批判性审视自己国家在减少温室气体排放方面所采取的措施,并讨论这些措施是否有助于实现气候时空正义。批判性气候教育还应深入阐释为什么人们拥护一些气候减缓的替代方案,而不是选择更多气候时空正义的方案。批判性气候教育有必要通过案例研究来阐明气候减缓措施的抉择,挪威就在忽视气候正义的背景下作出了气候减缓抉择。

As the climate crisis has become a current concern,children and youth should be offered education about climate mitigation choices.Drawing on critical pedagogy,political ecology,and environmental justice,I here suggest the elaboration of a critical climate education that would provide citizens with knowledge and skills to respond to the climate crisis with responsible action.I argue that students need to learn to critically examine options in their own countries for reducing greenhouse emissions and to discuss whether or not each of these measures may contribute to climate justice in time and space.A critical climate education should also offer insight into reasons why some climate mitigation alternatives have been embraced instead of options that could provide more climate justice in time and space.The need for a critical climate education is illustrated with a case study about climate mitigation choices that have been made in Norway without concern for climate justice.