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When an impetuous student told Dr. Johnson, "I don't understand you," he replied, "Sir, I have found you an argument but I am not obliged to find you an understanding" (Boswell, 1952/1784). And so it goes with the environment and adult education. That we have a problem was established by Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962 and it is up to us to find an understanding and hopefully a solution. As a field that has long taken up issues of the community and its development, we are arguably in the area of education that ought to pay particular attention to how to address environmental adult education and to find ways and means to solve it.
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English, L.M., Mayo, P. (2012). Environmental Adult Education. In: Learning with Adults. International Issues in Adult Education, vol 8. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-768-4_17
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