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Environmental Education and the Public Ecological Movement

n essential precondition for gaining a sustainable future is forming an ecological view in the general outlook of both individuals and society on the whole. This should be achieved by a system of step-to-step environmental education and by working out ecological thought.

It can be stated that there is a growing interest in Ukraine to environmental education and the ecological way of thought. For this, there exists a certain scientific and methodological basis. An active search is being done for finding ways and methods of forming an ecological view in various age categories and professional groups. However, these activities are irregular, spontaneous, and often are supported by initiative and enthusiasm of particular individuals or groups.

Today there is an urgent need to work out a concept, and later a national program of a permanent and step-to-step educational process backed up by appropriate methods and a legal mechanism of procuring funds for supporting it.

Experience of countries where environmental education is well developed shows that the main burden of day-to-day activities (excluding state educational institutions and programs) is put on nature protection NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations).

In Ukraine the most numerous or active ones are the Ukrainian Society for Nature Protection, the Ukrainian Ecological Association "Zeleny Svit", the National Ecological Centre of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Ecological Academy, the Green Party of Ukraine and some other regional societies.

The economic crisis in Ukraine, lack of financial support naturally have had an impact on the mind of society forcing underestimation of values and causing a withdrawal of many active people from the environmental movement. Today none of the mentioned organizations can totally fulfill all the functions usually carried out by a typical NGO such as raising public awareness, consisting a constructive opposition to governmental institutions, generating and testing new ideas, mechanisms, solutions, etc. Somewhat closer to this are the Ukrainian Ecological Association "Zeleny Svit" (uniting various groups), and the National Ecological Centre of Ukraine, the members of which are mainly scientists, politicians, state employees. In 1992 the Centre started to issue the first in Ukraine environmental journal "Oykumena. Ukrainian Ecological Review".

In Ukraine there is no special mechanism worked out for the interaction of NGOs and governmental structures regarding the solution of ecological problems. This actually depreciates many public activities.

Name anti-pollution protests/campaigns conducted by Ukrainian environmentalists.

GLOSSARY

Acid rains ― precipitation containing acid-forming chemicals, chiefly industrial pollutants, which have been released into the atmosphere and combined with water vapor; ecologically harmful.

Arid ― 1) extremely dry, parched;

2) barren or unproductive due to lack of moisture.

Carbon

dioxide ― gas CO₂

Chlorine ― (chem.) greenish-yellow, bad-smelling poisonous gas used as a sterilizing agent in industry.

Collaborate ― work one with another, cooperate.

Conservation ― the controlled utilization or official supervision of natural resources in order to preserve or protect them or to prevent depletion.

Contaminate ― 1) to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something unclean, bad, etc.;

2) pollute.

Deforest ― disafforest.

Deplete ― to decrease seriously or exhaust the abundance or supply of.

Discharge ― to pour forth.

Drought ― continuous (period of) dry weather causing distress; want of rain.

Ecocatastrophe― a widespread disaster caused by detrimental changes in the environment.

Ecology ― 1) branch of biology that deals with the habits of living things, esp. their relation to their environment;

2) the advocacy of protection of the air, water and other natural resources from pollution or its effects.

Ecosystem ― a system formed by the interaction of organisms with it environment.

Endanger ― 1) to expose to danger; imperil;

2) to threaten with extinction.

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