We supplement the ongoing discussions and debates on environmental education with a statement by Professor J. C. Smyth, an internationally recognized expert, a consultant to the UNESCO-UNEP program, who was in charge of the team preparing materials for the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. In 1975 The Observer enumerated principal enemies of mankind: the demographic explosion, shortages of food, limited accessibility to resources, environmental degradation, improper use of nuclear energy and the nature of man himself. Since people’s lives’ depend on them themselves and on the environment broadly defined, we should take responsibility for the condition of the environment. Known environmental components are coupled with unknown systems and the global environment by many complex links. These systems and their interdependence pose a great challenge to education. Environmental education, the topic of this article, can be a response to this challenge.
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