Universities/colleges should make climate change courses mandatory. Agree or disagree?

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9. Adding climate science, environmental science, or earth science to the general education requirements

for any student seeking a degree is certainly not a bad idea. but I think there would be push back in some quarters. Requiring students to be science-literate, apparently, is a symptom of the "woke mind virus".

FWIW, here are the general education competency components at Stony Brook University, a world-class SUNY institution that is tuition free for NYS residents. (Thank you Democrats!)

One of my kids studied there, and I'm proud to say that he now works in the field as an environmental scientist focusing on remediation at super fund sites.

- Explore and Understand the Fine and Performing Arts (ARTS)
- Engage Global Issues (GLO)
- Address Problems using Critical Analysis and the Methods of the Humanities (HUM)
- Communicate in a Human Language Other than English (LANG) (see Note 1)
- Master Quantitative Problem Solving (QPS)
- Understand, Observe, and Analyze Human Behavior and the Structure and Functioning of Society (SBS)
- Study the Natural World (SNW)
- Understand Technology (TECH)
- Understand the Political, Economic, Social, and Cultural History of the United States (USA)
- Write Effectively in English (WRT)