1. Ecological education is the fundamental way to improve ecological awareness and shape ecological civilization.
The improvement of ecological consciousness and the formation of ecological civilization depend on ecological education. Based on ecology, ecological education spreads ecological knowledge and culture, improves people's ecological awareness and ecological literacy, and shapes ecological civilization.
Carrying out ecological education, raising ecological awareness and shaping ecological civilization constitute a "pyramid" paradigm of mutual radiation, mutual benefit and coordinated development. The bottom of the pyramid is ecological education, which has laid a solid foundation for our ecological protection and ecological civilization construction.
Protecting and building the ecological environment and taking the road of sustainable development are inseparable from the support of scientific and technological means and the protection of laws and regulations, but they are also inseparable from the enhancement of people's ecological awareness and the improvement of ecological civilization.
The most effective way to strengthen ecological awareness, promote ecological civilization in an all-round way, and make every citizen consciously safeguard the ecological environment closely related to his own survival and development is to realize the transformation from "material development" to "mental development", establish a multi-dimensional ecological education system, and carry out ecological education for all.
2. The status and quality of ecological education is an important symbol to measure the degree of civilization of a country.
The goal of ecological education is to solve the contradiction between man and the environment, adjust man's behavior, establish ecological ethics norms and ecological moral concepts, educate man to correctly understand the laws and values of the natural environment, and improve man's emotion, aesthetic taste and appreciation ability of the natural environment.
Provide everyone with opportunities to acquire knowledge, attitudes, values, sense of responsibility and skills to protect and promote the ecological environment, and create a new pattern of environmental behavior of individuals, groups and the whole society.
In order to solve the increasingly serious ecological problems, most countries in the world have set up specialized institutions to take economic, legislative and technical measures to protect the natural ecological environment. Among them, Britain, Germany, the United States, Russia and South Africa carried out fruitful ecological education earlier, and achieved remarkable results in ecological protection and environmental governance, from "silent spring" to human homes with birds and flowers.
In other countries, people's ecological knowledge and awareness are poor and they lack the will to participate in ecological construction because of neglecting or relaxing the ecological education for citizens. People's concept deviation and improper behavior have caused a series of specific problems step by step, which is finally reflected in the deterioration of the ecological environment. We can't help but realize that a nation without ecological education is sad and terrible.
3. Ecological education can provide spiritual resources for solving contemporary ecological crisis and realizing sustainable development.
With the rapid development of science and technology and the rapid growth of population, the scale and degree of human social activities are constantly expanding, and the ability to obtain nature and interfere with natural ecology is also constantly strengthening, leading to more and more serious ecological crisis, and ecological destruction is gradually threatening human survival in an open or hidden way.