this question ended up in the wrong category, maybe!
Well maybe it should just be mentioned to people so that they are aware that such a thing exsists
I have also lived in China in various places including with the provincial judge of Sischuan, I know what you mean things must eventualy change there when people get sick of dying from disease caused by the pollution of the rivers etc!
They worry in asia that if they don't improve there economies they will be behind and be dominated by the west if history is anything to go by they are probably right in thinking that.

YES- but not only at "school"--- all politicians need reeducating.

Only in China and India. Here it would be another costly irrelevance.

If they made Environmental Economics compulsory they may as well make 'pissing into the wind' a subject too.

Just got back from a round trip that took in Banglalore and various places in China on business. I went to the fridge to get something to eat. When I was done with the packet, I went to recycle it as usual, and stopped and thought:

[reflecting on what I'd seen just a day or so before]

'What I'm about to do (recycle) is completely, utterly irrelevant. A misdirection of effort and thought'

And just shoved it in the 'Landfill' bin which is where the rest of my rubbish goes now.

I can draw parallels with anything carbon-footprinted, eco-friendly, environmentally conscious. Anything on a metaphorical 'environmental balance sheet' is undone by the behemoth of Asian and Indian apathy. In fact, we do ourselves more harm in the long term (economically) and also in the short term (none of the projects or schemes are thought out or viable enough in the UK). My education on its own is sufficient to recognise this already. Maybe this should be taught in China and India, although it would fall irrevocably short of covering the scope of the enormity of challenge that the development and industrialisation of these two giants presents.

What level of school? Because there's already too much going on at GCSE level.