Every year, the Zinn Education Project sends an email commemorating Earth Day. And each year, these seem more grim, more urgent.
This year, Earth Day arrives with crisis layered upon crisis. The emergency of climate chaos frames everything. People may want to be done with
COVID-19, but it is not done with us, as the latest variant continues to infect millions. The Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the war there, threatens nuclear catastrophe. And the crisis of inequality — racial, class, global — is so pervasive it can (wrongly) feel like part of human nature.
The corporate-owned media — which includes most textbooks in our schools — have no interest in equipping students to think deeply and critically about these crises. That’s why the Zinn Education Project exists: to help teachers of conscience “teach outside the textbook,” and help our students understand the world — and act to change it.
This Earth Day, take a moment to reacquaint yourself with our extensive collection of lessons, poetry, articles, film clips, and book recommendations at our
Teach Climate Justice campaign.
These resources can help you show students how all the crises we confront are connected — and introduce them to people and movements working to make the world more just, more equal.
