I don't think education would help. Knowing is never enough. People need to have a desire to be unselfish, to nurture, not damage and destroy. Take nature as an example, and what we know about the effects of pollution, oil and gas extraction, our brain and bodies' need for exercise while we idle and indulge in television. Parents used to read to their children. Now, we hand a phone to them and direct them to YouTube Kids app or PBS Sprout. There's a time and place for everything, but it's constant now. The whole population, you could say, is unsuited to caring for the Earth and for themselves.