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Excerpted from Eos.org.
By Gary A. Gomby
As the pace of global environmental change quickens and the attendant impacts deepen, geoscience knowledge and education grow ever more critical for understanding and resolving challenges arising from human modification of the Earth system.
Yet geoscience educators face challenges beyond just teaching the science of global planetary change. They should also be communicating how different communities are disproportionately affected by such change and illuminate the intra- and intergenerational equity implications of these impacts. Prevailing educational paradigms in the geosciences today focus on the first of these challenges but often neglect the latter two.
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