The Importance of Critical Environmental Education as a Driving Force for Socio-Political Mobilizations

Abstract

This article aims to discuss and examine whether the dissemination of Critical Environmental Education could serve as a response to the global environmental crisis. By identifying the relationships between capital, power structures, and predatory anthropogenic actions, this form of education—despite considerable challenges on a planetary scale—might foster profound awareness, drive direct actions, and spur socio-political mobilizations that question capital’s influence on educational and media systems, the normalization of environmental degradation, and consumerist culture. The school context, through an interdisciplinary and inclusive approach, becomes essential to understanding the complexity of the Anthropocene era, aiming to cultivate political, critical, and environmental consciousness. Such awareness is indispensable across all societal spheres to forge a global movement of action, enabling communities to confront socio-environmental challenges and pursue a sustainable and inclusive future.