Maslow's psychological needs theory tells us that people's needs are hierarchical, from the lowest survival needs to the highest self-worth realization needs, all need to be related to external things. Therefore, on the one hand, they enjoy the achievements of civilization created by human beings, on the other hand, they constantly taste the bitter fruit of their own brewing: the uncontrolled abuse of natural resources and the destruction of ecological balance. Due to the needs of production and life, people have polluted and destroyed the living environment of human beings, such as water, atmosphere, soil, etc., resulting in less and less available rare material resources, and their survival, eating and life have been seriously threatened. Thousands of creatures on the earth disappear every year ... According to the World Health Organization's estimation, at present, 25% of diseases and deaths in the world are caused by environmental problems, and 3/4 of the 49 million people who die every year in the world are caused by environmental deterioration. In fact, the ecological and environmental problems caused by one-sided pursuit of material wealth are not only problems of a region or a country, but also major problems that need to be faced and solved by all mankind.
China is the most populous country in the world. After years of hard work, China's economy has developed rapidly, but at the same time, environmental problems are becoming increasingly serious. In 2004, Professor Wang Junying from the Institute of Ecology of china environmental science Research Institute analyzed the 1 1 environmental problems in China from the macro-environmental perspective in China Education News. That is, lack of water resources, serious water pollution and serious waste of water resources; Serious air pollution; The amount of cultivated land is decreasing day by day, and land desertification, soil acidification and salinization are serious; Wetland reduction and ecological function degradation; The quantity and quality of forests and grasslands are declining, and soil erosion is serious; Marine pollution has intensified, and the marine environment is not optimistic; Biodiversity is destroyed and species are reduced; Frequent natural disasters; Pollution in agriculture and rural areas is serious, and food safety problems are prominent. Faced with such an arduous problem of environmental pollution and ecological imbalance, our government is also fully aware of the potential great harm of environmental pollution, and has repeatedly mentioned environmental protection issues at the 16th and 17th National Congress, calling on the whole people to save energy and reduce emissions, establish environmental awareness, advocate a low-carbon life and build a conservation-oriented society. Contemporary college students are the new force of national economic construction in the future and shoulder the historical responsibility of national rejuvenation. Facing the long-term and arduous task of improving the ecological environment, college students should first establish advanced environmental awareness, so as to drive the whole society to carry out environmental protection and maintain ecological harmony.
Second, the necessity of environmental awareness education for college students
First of all, strengthening the environmental awareness education of college students is conducive to improving their basic quality. Quality education for college students is the key link in running a university. Environmental awareness education is one of the important contents of quality education for college students and an important means to improve their comprehensive quality and moral literacy. A high-quality person should have a high degree of environmental awareness, and have the consciousness of constantly adjusting his economic and social activities and coordinating the practical activities of the relationship between man and the environment and between man and himself. The environmental awareness in 2 1 century will become an important symbol of the civilization, development and progress of human society, and it will also become one of the qualities that human beings must possess in 2 1 century. Cultivating college students' environmental awareness is an objective requirement for the development of the new century.
Secondly, strengthening college students' environmental awareness education is conducive to achieving the goal of building a harmonious society. Building a harmonious socialist society is a new topic put forward during the 11th Five-Year Plan period. Harmony between man and nature is an important feature of a harmonious society. To achieve harmony between man and nature, we should not only formulate complete environmental protection laws and regulations, but also establish a high-quality environmental law enforcement team. More importantly, we should encourage people to change their ideas and establish a correct awareness of environmental protection. Only by establishing the belief of respecting nature and protecting the environment in their hearts can college students shoulder the heavy responsibility of building a harmonious society between man and nature and realize the strategic goal of sustainable development in China and even all mankind.
Finally, strengthening the environmental awareness education of college students is conducive to promoting ideological and moral education. Through environmental awareness education, let students realize that environmental protection is a serious problem related to the future of the earth and mankind, establish global awareness and global concept, and realize that the value of human beings is to contribute to human survival and strive for the fundamental interests of all mankind; It can help students learn to consciously pay attention to the surrounding environment, care for our common home, cultivate college students' sense of urgency and inspire them to establish a sense of responsibility for themselves, the country and the world; It can also cultivate students' self-discipline consciousness of daily behavior norms and cultivate virtues such as cherishing peace and collectivism.
Analysis of environmental awareness of three major students
1. College students lack knowledge of environmental protection.
At present, college education is mainly based on basic courses and professional courses, and courses related to environmental protection are relatively limited. A survey by Chen Yuan, a teacher of Shanghai Normal University, shows that many students know little about the recycling and harmlessness of waste, and they can't tell the story of chemical mechanism or the significance of mastering environmental protection knowledge.
2. College students are not active.
Because environmental protection issues have not been put forward for a long time, many students know little about environmental protection knowledge and the harmful consequences of environmental problems, and the lack of school education leads to a weak awareness of some college students to actively participate in environmental protection. It is embodied in the following aspects: awareness of waste reduction, awareness of waste classification, awareness of energy conservation and emission reduction, awareness of participating in environmental protection activities, etc.
3. There are not many carriers for college students' environmental protection activities.
At present, the main channels of environmental protection education and environmental knowledge popularization in colleges and universities are lectures, lectures, community activities and media publicity. From the actual situation, the carrier of environmental protection activities in colleges and universities is not rich enough. In addition to the lack of necessary courses related to environmental protection, the construction of environmental protection student associations has not been fully supported. As a result, students' environmental protection activities are mainly based on propaganda knowledge, and it is difficult to go deep into practical work, which leads to college students' lack of interest in environmental protection, thus affecting the cultivation of environmental awareness.
Fourthly, measures to improve college students' environmental awareness.
1. Strengthen the popularization of environmental protection theory knowledge.
First of all, as the main position of cultivating and educating college students, colleges and universities should actively popularize the environmental protection knowledge of college students from the perspective of education. Colleges and universities should pay attention to the cultivation of college students' environmental awareness when making professional training plans. For non-environmental majors, 65,438+0 ~ 2 elective courses in environmental aspects should be offered, such as "environmental research" and "ecology". At the same time, a certain number of public elective courses, such as "environmental monitoring" and "general biology", should be set up to popularize environmental protection knowledge among college students.
2. Strengthen the construction of campus environmental protection science and technology cultural activities.
Campus environmental cultural activities have a positive and sustainable impact on improving college students' attitude towards environmental protection and the formation of environmental concepts. While attaching importance to the popularization of environmental knowledge and environmental awareness education for students in classroom teaching, we should also strengthen the development of other educational means besides teaching methods. First of all, colleges and universities should make full use of World Environment Day, Earth Day, World No Tobacco Day, World Water Day and World Food Day to publicize environmental science knowledge. Invite environmental experts and scholars to the school to explain environmental policies and regulations, current situation, problems and solutions; Secondly, colleges and universities can also carry out large-scale activities such as "environmental construction" with local governments in their communities, and fully organize college students and social environmental protection organizations to carry out environmental protection activities, such as the "Earth Hour" lights-out activities synchronized with social environmental protection organizations; Thirdly, colleges and universities should give full play to the characteristics of college students' strong innovation ability, and extensively carry out competitions on environmental protection knowledge, skills and design among college students, such as "Design Competition for Energy Saving and Emission Reduction", "Dormitory Power Saving Competition" and "Environmental Creative Competition" held by Dalian University, so as to stimulate college students' enthusiasm for environmental protection and enhance their awareness of environmental protection.
3. Strengthen the construction of environmental protection organizations in colleges and universities.
Environmental protection activities in colleges and universities are mainly initiated and organized by environmental protection associations in colleges and universities. Nowadays, environmental protection organizations in colleges and universities have become a force that cannot be ignored in China's environmental protection cause. In recent years, all kinds of colleges and universities in China have basically established their own environmental protection associations. They publicized and protected the environment through various environmental protection activities, which played a positive role in promoting the environmental protection in China. However, most environmental protection organizations in colleges and universities are spontaneous organizations, lacking professional guidance, funds and material support, so most of them are left to fend for themselves. Its positive influence and contribution are not obvious. Therefore, colleges and universities should attach importance to the construction of environmental protection associations, increase funding and guidance, and carry out "small, clever, precise and intelligent" activities, which have the characteristics of strong operability, easy success and effectiveness. For example, do environmental protection websites in colleges and universities, set up recycling points for batteries and solid waste in dormitories, set up fixed publicity columns for environmental protection knowledge, and organize college students to go out by bike to publicize environmental protection knowledge.
In a word, environmental protection is the responsibility and mission of all mankind. As a fresh force and highly educated talent group in the future motherland construction, college students should also improve their awareness of environmental protection and make their own contributions to the sustainable development of nature and ecology. At the same time, college students should also raise their awareness of environmental protection, and at the same time strive to drive the whole society to pay attention to environmental protection and carry out environmental protection activities, so as to finally implement environmental protection and form a good environmental protection atmosphere in which everyone cares about the environment and everyone saves energy and reduces emissions.