Did yr 1980's secondary school teach you about climate change?

[hunnymonsta]

Mine did. We had Environmental Studies lessons in what would have been the equivalent of Year 9 in about 1985. We learnt about fossil fuels, renewable alternatives, and the "theory" (as it was then) of global warming. We also learned about CFC gases creating a hole in the ozone layer. Was my school very ahead of its time or was it fairly common for schools to teach about these things?

For years afterwards I saw nothing more about it than an occasional newspaper article, though the frequency of those eventually picked up momentum as the evidence-base grew and the science became more accepted.

Yes, in both Primary in the 1980’s and secondary in the 90’s. We even wrote a cheery Christmas song about acid rain killing all the Christmas trees in year 6.

I also remember Blue Peter introducing a Green Blue Peter badge and doing massive campaigns about recycling cans.

Not even my 90s secondary school taught us about climate change

We had environmental studies (Enviro) at my school in the 80's /90's. I remember drawing a picture of the earth in a greenhouse, but for me I don't think the message really sank in for another 30 years.

Not that I remember

My middle school covered acid rain and ozone layer c.1990 and I had the Blue Peter green book. I remember Rodney on Only Fools and Horses talking about his environmental concerns around this time

I remember learning about the ozone layer, and then they banned CFCs in aerosols and things were branded 'ozone friendly' then lead in car fumes was to cause acid rain.
I think maybe there was a nod to global warming, but i rememeber other environmental causes being much more taught and discussed.

I remember being taught about the environment and acid rain in primary school in the 1980s and our teacher sending us to the local bottle bank with glass bottles we'd used for music (unaccompanied- imagine that now!).

I started secondary in 1990 and we covered the greenhouse effect and that oil was expected to run out in 30 years so we needed alternatives to fossil fuels. We also recycled our aluminium fizzy drink cans in the school canteen and did litter picks and learning about recycling.

We did CFCs and the hole in the ozone layer, and also acid rain and pollution. I don't remember learning about global warming until later, but I dropped it in the 3rd year so didn't do O level.

I was in secondary school in the 1970s and nothing was mentioned. I did however get Silent Spring out of the library and it terrified me...

Yes, in the 80s-90s. I remember being told that by the time we were all adults, cars would all be electric as fossil fuels would be gone. And the greenhouse effect.

The likely catastrophic events we are now facing have been understood for decades: mass climate driven instability and migration was talked about in the 90s.

Primary school encouraged us to take part in Blue Peter competitions on environmental issues like lead in petrol and to do a picture to win a chance to go to the 1992 Sustainable Development summit in Rio!
I sadly didn't win.

Yes, in geography and science. Greenhouse gases, The Rainforest, Renewable Energy vs Fossil Fuels, CFCs and the Ozone Layer...
I did a big project on different energy sources and methods of saving energy during GCSE years and am always surprised that BioFuels aren't mentioned much these days.