"Increased educational attainment is a sustainable development priority and has been posited to have benefits for other social and environmental issues, including climate change. However, links between education and climate change risks can involve both synergies and trade-offs, and the balance of these effects remains ambiguous. Increases in educational attainment could lead to faster economic growth and therefore higher emissions, more climate change and higher risks. At the same time, improved attainment would be associated with faster fertility decline in many countries, slower population growth and therefore lower emissions, and would also be likely to reduce vulnerability to climate impacts. We employ a multiregion, multisector model of the world economy, driven with country-specific projections of future population by level of education, to test the net effect of education on emissions and on the Human Development Index (HDI), an indicator that correlates with adaptive capacity to climate impacts. We find that improved educational attainment is associated with a modest net increase in emissions but substantial improvement in the HDI values in developing country regions. Avoiding stalled progress in educational attainment and achieving gains at least consistent with historical trends is especially important in reducing future vulnerability."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-0512-y

Increasing may make climate change worse, but people will be better able to cope.

Cease edumucashun now.

The_Barnacle wrote on Jun 11^th, 2020 at 6:43pm:




So give us your considered expert opinion.

Robot wrote on Jun 11^th, 2020 at 7:07pm:



it certainly did for you.

" Increases in educational attainment could lead to faster economic growth and therefore higher emissions, more climate change and higher risks."

"At the same time, improved attainment would be associated with faster fertility decline in many countries, slower population growth and therefore lower emissions, and would also be likely to reduce vulnerability to climate impacts."

That is however debatable, especially in the medium term. Higher birthrates aren't solely a factor of education. It is intrinsically linked to childhood survival rates. That is linked to affordable grid power, not burning dung etc within the home.

The_Barnacle wrote on Jun 12^th, 2020 at 4:08pm:



You don't comprehend well; do you?

lee wrote on Jun 11^th, 2020 at 7:15pm:



First you have to have reliable electricity supply to the villages, not Weather Dependent Weather electricity supply. That will help overcome the child mortality rates. Then after a generation or two of better education AND better childhood survival rates birth rates may come down.

BTW - it doesn't lead to "drop in fertility". Women will remain as fertile as ever. They may have the opportunity to get pregnant less often. (that is culture dependent)