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Education and climate change - some systemic connections

Ainley’s original analysis of education as a system that is fundamentally unsustainable is presented in an article critiquing the organisation and purposes of education and training, notably of UK ‘learning’. Ainley contends that in a new market‐state formation the pursuit of short‐term goals is tied to the global free‐market economy over which attempts at democratic control have been relinquished. Since humanity worldwide faces increasing ecological change, this educational approach is ‘ecocidally insane’, the opposite of learning from experience to alter future behaviour. The re‐regulated new global market is an unsustainable response to the end of the Keynesian welfare nation‐state formation.