1. The Challenge of Creating an Environmentally Literate Citizenry
October, 2014
RC Paul – Kennesaw State University

2. An example of a major issue: Global Climate Change

3. Pew Research, 2009

4. What educators are up against

5. An informed public? How many of these can you identify?

9. Possible implications of increased greenhouse gases

10. Rising sea levels; vulnerable coastlines

11. Ocean acidification

13. Other issues: air quality

15. We are drilling here & drilling deeper, sometimes with unintended consequences

16. Alternative transportation?

17. Voters’ opinions – influenced by politics

20. Voters are growing skeptical

21. Misinformation!

22. Where can we find reliable information?
NASA

23. Or elsewhere?

25. How Science Works

26. Peer Review

27. Scientific Certainty

29. Educating the Millennials

31. Mother Jones, 2013 Poll