The Decade 2105-2104 is the 'United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development'

Education in the classroom is of great importance for learning about sustainable development due to the fact that in the classroom is where you learn most of the stuff that you know latter in life. It is not just in the classroom that sustainable development should be taught and openly discussed however, it should be a topic of conversation between adults, teenagers and children alike. The subject of sustainability should be common place and just influence every decision that people make from what people buy from the shops to how a teenager gets to school or what you do with the left over waste whether it be domestic or food waste.

Geography can be used to highlight sustainable development and sustainability on the whole however i believe that i should be separate in the curriculum to geography especially as it is a pivotal part of today's society and possibly to be taught as a new subject or as a module in citizenship. This will increase the average persons knowledge of what is happening to the word and what will happen if we continue to use natural resources the way we are at the moment.

This module has taught me a great deal about sustainability and it has changed my personal view on what is "right" and "wrong". This assessment also has showed me how to express these thought on paper which in turn got me to think about the module and subject area in alot more detail and has helped my understanding of the topic area.

Bad Crunch, Good Crunch?

To some extent you can argue that as people have less to spend on luxury items then previous years then the waste from these items will obviously less. However the capitalist society that we still live in state that the money that goes in to advertising is still the same amount as previous years and sometimes even more. This is shown in the latest NFL Superbowl where 30 seconds of advertising costs the company 30 million dollars you would have thought that with the economic downturn the amount of these "30million dollar" ads would have taken a sharp descenders. However this is not the case as this year it was the most adverts that we have seen in recent years. This just goes to show that as peoples pocket gets gradually shorter and shorter the huge multinational companies want to continue to take the worlds money in the form of their individual product and not care about the economic crisis that is set on them by destroying other social sectors. However i digress, On the whole due to this economic downturn, credit crunch, global economic recession (call it what you will) means that people have less disposable income which was historically used on alcohol, cigarettes and fuel. Also as taxes go up on these luxury products we will see these products be used less and less.