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RSN_Kabutops t1_j15fflz wrote

"Textbooks not responsible for covering material are not covering material"

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uninstallIE t1_j16fofz wrote

Climate change has biological impacts and biological causes. The biology of many of our agricultural and industrial practices (i.e. the flora and fauna involved and impacted) is the primary driver of climate change. The way that changes in temperature will impact flora and fauna, and indeed us as well is also vitally important to know.

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Here's a very basic example. Temperatures can impact reproductive frequency, behavior, and the physical sex of many species. If you are studying biology as it relates to an average temperature that no longer exists on earth, you are not studying biology as you need to understand today.

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vinbullet t1_j19k54y wrote

That's more ecology than biology imo. They definitely teach how temperature affects such things as reproduction and sex, which I would expect most high schoolers to be able to connect to changes in climate.

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5LadiesInMy4Seater t1_j19wnrb wrote

For my own understanding, do you think Ecology is a higher level science that should be taught in a collegiate setting, or should we be exposing student to this subject (and climate change) in public schools?

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uninstallIE t1_j19qqxh wrote

All professionals in all disciplines need to understand climate change and make it part of their practice because it impacts everything. A medical doctor needs to understand how changing climate will impact their patients, for example.

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KaelthasX3 t1_j18xort wrote

IDK, back when I was in school, climate in general was under geography lessons, not biology.

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uninstallIE t1_j19qyee wrote

It impacts everything. It's worth including in everything

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Swarna_Keanu t1_j16ia3w wrote

As others already mentoned there is a huge overlap between the effects of climate change and biologiy - from species distribution to ecology to even what happens to whole strata of species. Small example - some sea turtles gender ratio is linked to the temperature of the ocean and is shifting more and more as temperatures rise - with an increased risk of extinction. There's loads of that interaction.

But Climate Change also is relevant to near any academic topic: From engineering (most of our infrastructure is not climate change ready) to social and political science (it has and will continue to have massive impacts in both areas) to psychology (that we don't act is a psychological issue - not one of the natural sciences) to medicine to forestry to animal husbandry and soil science to ...

There is no area of what is true and factual and real about our world that will not be altered in some way as our atmospheric systems change.

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kslusherplantman t1_j16wd9t wrote

Based on that reasoning, we should be learning about waves from physics in biology since they are important to biology…

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Chetkica t1_j17a2f8 wrote

Thats an utterly false analogy. We are talking about changing ecosystems (due to climate change), and pupils learning wrong outdated information, not adding geophysics to bio class.

No injections from other sciences are being added (not learning geophysics there) just ecology being adapted to the times and context being added. Otherwise you're learning not ecology but paleoecology

edit; here; https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/zryepn/climate_impacts_are_increasing_textbooks_arent/j16fofz/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3

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kslusherplantman t1_j17bmgx wrote

Oh, but they don’t study ecosystems in every biology class…

So THATS a false analogy in your own right!

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Chetkica t1_j17e5kh wrote

what are you even saying.

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kslusherplantman t1_j17eojw wrote

Using your own words against you…

do they study ecosystems in every biology class? Nope!

So therefore expecting to have that in EVERY biology class is also a false analogy.

I was being hyperbolic to prove a point.

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Chetkica t1_j17jv2m wrote

Climate change and anthropogenic pollution have impacts worth mentioning beyond just ecology: e.g. evolutionary pressures of climate change (evolutionary biology), impacts of microplastics on the human body or corals (human and marine biology), degree and speed of extinction of different species, changes to biomes (biogeography), plastic eating microbes (microbiology) and so on and on.

No idea what kind of inner conflict this rambling is symptomatic of but i think our time can be better spent than this nonsense.

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GhostRobot55 t1_j17ty29 wrote

But what's the point of your point, or are you just being contrarion because why not?

Shocking that your main reddit activity is growing drugs. I don't even have a problem with drugs, but you seem juvenile.

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Chetkica t1_j179sjp wrote

??

ecology has so so so many intersecting points w the climate, you can remark on the changing effects of climate change on the ecosystem every page

Ecology is an entire semester in 4th grade of high school bio class in my country.;

1st year: basic biochem, biomolecules, codones, blabla

2nd: taxonomy, the tree of life and various groups of animals

3rd: human biology and plant biology

4th grade: genetics, genomics + ECOLOGY

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guynamedjames t1_j16fpbw wrote

I'm not sure how climate change wouldn't be relevant in the context of biology. Sure something like microbiology or cellular biology aren't going to change much but every ecosystem out there is changing or about to start changing. I'm sure a book on artic wildlife would feature climate change extensively, the fact that others aren't just means they're behind the ball.

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Michigan_Forged t1_j16uzf1 wrote

As it so happens, microbes have a massive impact on climate change.

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Chetkica t1_j17bayr wrote

Cellular biology slightly less so, But microbiology is massively impacted by climate change, plastic pollution, and other human made phenomena

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just-cuz-i t1_j16gfhv wrote

^ person that doesn’t understand science criticizing science

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