Teaching young children to recognise tree and bird species may feel a long way removed from geopolitical priorities - such as sea-level rises, global heating, deforestation, ocean acidification, polution, habitat loss - but we desperately need young people to be knowledgeable about how life developed and to have a good awareness of ecosystems and out own reliance on nature. 

The predicted impacts of climate crisis on Earth's climate systems need well-informed young peopled, learning through education that faces forwards and outwards to look at the present situation and future of our natural world.