As you know, geoenvironmental problems have become some of the most important issues across the world today. In order to save our invaluable global environment, which has been inherited from our forefathers and has to be handed on to the next generation, what can we do who are living in the present?
Geoenvironmental problems have been caused by unregulated human action that has lacked harmony with nature. To solve this problem, it is necessary to review such intricately related matters as politics, the economy, and land use in a comprehensive manner, and to suggest effective policies to tackle the problems.
In this course, we learn about geoenvironmental problems dealing largely with the global warming issue. Beginning with “What is the field of environmental studies?” the lectures focus on environmental issues from various perspectives, such as the history of environmental problems, the international negotiation process for the Kyoto Protocol, domestic or international approaches to it, greenhouse warming and deforestation, and the effect of climate change on biodiversity.
The professor is a pioneer in this field. In his lectures, he tells us about global trends with regard to geoenvironmental issues in real time. Therefore, students can easily understand the news on issues reported regularly by the media and think about them with interest. I myself feel that environmental issues have been brought closer to me since I began this course. I came to be more interested in this field.
Though each lecture proceeds calmly from start to finish, the teacher’s passion for geoenvironmental issues comes through loud and clear.
At the end of the course, he said to us, “We were only born in a certain country by chance; there is no border for geoenvironmental problems. Never forget that people, plants, and animals inhabit every place on earth, and act to save the global environment, if only a little.”
The most important thing is for each of us to be concerned about geoenvironmental issues and act properly to try and solve the problems. Why don’t you take a course like this to raise your interest and awareness of the issues, and think about the future of our precious planet?