Education is fundamental and is the long-term solution to cultivate people's green living senses, Young-Woo Park, an official with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) told chinadaily.com.cn in an exclusive interview on Tuesday in Beijing.
"We should change views of people towards the environment from the earliest stage, for example, educating children in kindergarten, elementary, middle and high schools," said Park, regional director and representative of Asia and the Pacific with the UNEP.
Young-Woo Park, regional director and representative of Asia and the Pacific with the United Nations Environment Programme.Students should know how energy and food are produced, and the effect on environment and health, then they will know how to be less energy intensive and more climate friendly, Park said. Perhaps, they will educate their parents, also, he added.Both the young and the older generation can practice recycling and re-use activities easily in their daily lives.
For the young, they are not yet contaminated by the western life style, which consumes too much resource. For the older, they lived through poor periods, so recycling and reuse used to be part of their lives.
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