W hen the monsoon turned merciless last December, a government school in North Chennai saw its classrooms sink under waist-deep water. A student said, “We knew the chapter on floods by heart but not what to do when the water came for us.” That single sentence is a mirror to our education system; overflowing with facts, but starved of resilience. Their syllabus covered the water cycle, but not the cycle of neglect that made their house flood year after year. Environmental education must evolve — from moral science to moral responsibility. Posters proclaim “Save the Earth”, but students are rarely taught to how to do so.

Across India, floods drown schools, heatwaves close universities, and smog turns morning assemblies into health hazards. Yet, for most students, climate change remains an

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