IT IS encouraging to learn from recent media reports that primary-school pupils are being taught about the dangers of climate change and the importance of renewable energy.

This is commendable as it will teach children to be responsible about safeguarding the environment from abuse.

Parents can also play a key role in educating their children by talking to them about environmental issues they have learnt in school and helping them discover green solutions to them.

They can teach their children to appreciate nature, recycle waste and conserve water and energy.

They can also help them see how the use of plastic bags and polystyrene boxes is harmful to the environment and should be discouraged.

Since children will inherit the planet from adults, they should be shown how to take good care of the environment so that they can be responsible stewards of their inheritance.

If they do not care about the depletion of the ozone layer and excessive carbon- dioxide emissions, then the environment of the future may not be a conducive one for them to live in.

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