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CHAPTER 8
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
8.1
It is
not unusual
priority to
according so me
has planned adequately for
needs.
changing.
for a community to start
the environment only after it
food, housing and other basic
Su ch is the case with Hong Kong. But ti me s are
The community is now starting to accord some
though many are still ignorant
priority to the environment,
and apathetic about it.
8.2
This
environmentally
contribute
situation
must be
aware
and
well
reversed,
informe d
because an
pu blic
by
can
the
to achieving a better environment
pressure it brings to bear on the administration, District
Boards and the legislature.
8.3
An environmentally aware community is also more
able to appreciate the contribution that it can itself make
to protecting or improving the environment. Contributions
individual members of the public si mp ly showing
range
consideration
from
to
the ir
entertaining
or
account in
environ ment
the ir
of
or
ma y
neighbours when watching
TV,
playing mah jong, to engineers taking
designs of the adverse effects on the
roads, typhoon shelters and other projects;
developers appreciating the intractable problems they
create
by promoting residential develop ment
in
essentially industrial areas; or architects being alive to
the scope for designing against noise in new commercial or
residential comp lexes; or industrialists and farmers in
ensuring their factories and farms include waste treat ment
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