STUDY OF GLOBAL PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY IN THE FORMATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL COMPETENCE OF STUDENTS

Abstract

The article focuses on the importance of obtaining complex knowledge by schoolchildren, affecting the global problems of modernity and ways to solve them. At the present stage of the development of civilization, problems affecting the vital interests of both individual people and entire nations and the whole of humanity as a whole have become aggravated. Solving these problems requires the collective efforts of many people. Global warming and damage from human activities, meteoric and asteroid threats, the spread of viral and infectious diseases, overpopulation of the planet, lack of food, the depletion of mineral reserves, the search for alternative energy sources, etc. for their solution require complex knowledge from people, new scientific discoveries and modern technology.

 The constant attention of mankind, the deepening of scientific knowledge and the involvement of the younger generation to these problems will help save life on planet Earth. Consumer attitude to our planet is in the past. The new Ukrainian education system provides for the provision of basic knowledge of this subject to our children, defines one of the tasks – the formation of environmental competence and uses a humanistic approach to learning, within which the problem of a humane attitude to our planet as a whole is relevant.

It is impossible to form a high-quality environmental competence of schoolchildren without their obtaining knowledge on the global problems of modern times and ways to solve them. This philosophical and natural science problematic is an important key to the preservation and further development of our civilization. The future of our planet depends on a high level of scientific knowledge, a new type of thinking, ecological consciousness, culture and worldview of the younger generation