Hello Earth, are you up again!
Today we “celebrate” #earthovershootday, the day on which we have used up all that the earth can produce. Not something to be really proud of, especially when you know that this date is coming earlier and earlier in the year.There is too little time in the geography course, but plenty of space to talk about the earth’s supporting capacity. It’s a story that starts as early as first grade. Just because it is so immensely important not to lose sight of the story through the school years, I came up with the story with the lego minifigures. Furthermore, I have had the blessed opportunity to have a hand in a teaching method throughout the entire high school career.
It is more than useful and necessary to highlight this topic in a cross-curricular way, the day the earth will be gone. It is also very encouraging to know that the world’s largest festival Tomorrowland is holding its first Love-Tomorrow-Conference this year, coincidentally just today. Just by coincidence ( if coincidence exists ) I visited TML myself for the first time this year, which explains the banner photo, and I was already fascinated by the butterfly logo. If you then add 1 and 1 you come to 3
What if… you could bring a clear telling story through such an immense platform?
It is more than necessary now, just when Europe is literally on fire, to turn the growing apathy and increasing aversion to “the environment” and “the climate” into a less depressing and fatalistic story! One where you don’t patronize the systemic failures go finger pointing, but see it as immense growing pains of a vastly increasing population on mother earth.
We have jumped too fast from 4 to 8 billion and just that supply with all the humanly considered needs, besides the greediness of a small minority, is becoming too much for our mother Earth!
I myself am trying to take in the program and knowledge of this first conference and see how, through the guiding position of the subject of geography, I can make a new butterfly compass for us, humanity. Sounds overconfident and a bit pretentious, up to me to show that it is not so 😉
your geography teacher
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