Education for sustainable development, youth, and new learning, or 'would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'

Until recently, the planet was a large world in which human activities and their effects were neatly compartmentalised within nation states and broad areas of environmental, economic, or social concern. For many high-income countries in the global South, such as Australia and New Zealand, distance and isolation from the North and the global crisis of population growth and poverty have provided a buffer, inducing a sense of lethargy and a lack of urgency. But borders are dissolving, the reach of human and environmental disasters is increasing, and, like Alice falling down the rabbit hole, the world has become smaller and connected in new ways. There are no longer separate crises - an environmental crisis, a development crisis, and an energy crisis - they have become a global crisis of sustainability. It is within these new times of global crisis that the vision of education for sustainable development (ESD) should evolve - a vision I believe that should be based on new models of learning