In this paper, we begin reflecting on how ‘futures literacy’ – recently championed by UNESCO as a vital skill that allows people to better understand the role of the future in what they see and do – might be developed in environmental law pedagogy. Law and legal analysis tend to be absent from futures scholarship and we discuss various ways of engaging with environmental law as an important but underexplored site and means of future-making. We consider our shared teaching of an undergraduate module in which students examine historical legislation for what it says about past ideas of the environment's future and the action within the law necessary to safeguard it; and contemporary texts, including science fiction and poetry, imagining a future for the environment on and through which law operates. Futures literacy, we argue, is at its richest when ‘historical futures’ and ‘future futures’ are read together, or alongside one another.

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环境法教学中的历史未来和未来未来：探索“未来素养”

在本文中，我们开始思考如何在环境法教学法中发展“未来素养”——最近被联合国教科文组织列为一项重要技能，使人们能够更好地理解未来在他们所见所行中的作用。未来奖学金往往缺乏法律和法律分析，我们讨论了将环境法作为一个重要但未充分探索的未来创造场所和手段进行参与的各种方式。我们考虑了一个本科模块的共享教学，在该模块中，学生检查历史立法，了解它对过去环境未来的看法以及保护它所必需的法律行动；和当代文本，包括科幻小说和诗歌，想象法律赖以运作的环境的未来。我们认为，未来的素养，