How Sweden's environmental education is building a generation of Greta Thunbergs.
“I wanted to learn more so when I got home out of class, I started reading,” Mahdi said, her beaming smile conveying her passion for the issue.Rather than chasing “fast” fashion trends, Mahdi only shops when she really needs something and prefers to buy second-hand clothes or swaps them with her cousin and her mother. She also avidlyLike many of her peers, she’s taking home lessons learned in the classroom.
“To encourage independent and critical thinking, encourage students’ own voices, encourage students to take a stand, that’s an important focus in education in general in Sweden,” he said. It was also among one of the first countries in the world to introduce a carbon tax in 1995 for carbon-intensive fuels such as oil and natural gas. It appears to have been a success. By 2013, the country’s greenhouse gas emissions were reduced by 22 percent from 1990 levels.
While protecting the environment, the carbon tax is one of the contributing factors to high prices at the gas pump, which has hit people living in more remote and rural communities hard.against gas taxes has more than 616,000 members — a notable figure for a country of 10 million. Ismahni Bjorkman, 45, who lives 38 miles north of Stockholm, mends clothing, uses reusable cloth diapers and buys toys that are either second-hand or made of sustainable materials to help protect the planet.In a cozy log house on a quiet street surrounded by forest about 38 miles north of Stockholm, Ismahni Björkman, 45, teaches her children to garden and compost.
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