To sum up, the connotation of environmental education mainly includes "discipline theory", "process theory" and "means theory". "Discipline theory" discusses the meaning of environmental education from the perspective of discipline attributes, and regards environmental education as an educational science. "Process Theory" holds that the realization of the value of environmental education is a long and gradual process. "Means theory" holds that "environmental education is a way to achieve the purpose of environmental protection". These three viewpoints all contain the goal of environmental education, that is, to awaken people's environmental awareness and care, to make people understand environmental-related problems, to help people master the knowledge and skills to solve environmental problems, to make people deal with existing environmental problems with reasonable attitude, knowledge and technology, to prevent the occurrence of new environmental problems, and to establish reasonable environmental values and environmental ethics.

Generally speaking, environmental education is an educational activity aimed at improving people's ability to deal with the interdependence with the environment. Specifically, environmental education starts from the interdependence between human beings and the environment, and through the education of environmental knowledge and environmental problems, it promotes the environmental awareness and psychology of the educated, cultivates their knowledge and skills to solve environmental problems, and establishes correct environmental values and moral values, thus providing all kinds of help for the harmonious development of human beings and the environment.