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The Daily Telegraph reports that the Australian NSW Government is trialling lessons about climate doomsday on children, to see what impact being taught to hate yourself has on the children’s development.
Climate change gloom lessons for kids
DOOMSDAY climate change lessons are being taught to children as young as eight who are concluding that human activity threatens to destroy beautiful sunsets and waterways.
Six schools in the state’s north are trialling a “world first” curriculum that is expected to be adopted across the state, if successful.
The NSW Education Department-approved trial is being run by Southern Cross University’s Lismore campus and proposes to give students from Year 3 to Year 8 “political agency” and allow them to be “experts in their own lives”.
Running in tandem with the curriculum is a challenge project in which students form their own response to climate change and how they can personally prevent mass extinctions of animals, plants and their habitats.
Some children have concluded that humans have “succeeded in destroying much of the physical world”.
One student researcher in northern NSW said: “It is selfish and horrible how humans are causing animal and plant species to die.”
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“Kids are doing amazing work where they take a photo which represents some aspect of climate change and they write about it. Some students take photos of beautiful things such as sunsets or waterways and then write about how it could be lost or destroyed because of climate change.”
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Read more (paywalled): http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/climate-change-gloom-lessons-for-kids/news-story/50cec5bce634445c27b9b8d518eb735e
If there is one aspect of the climate movement which truly upsets me, it is the way some deep greens, frustrated at their inability to influence adults in a meaningful way, feel compelled to worm their way into various education bureaucracies so they can have a shot at messing up the children. Let us hope this horrible trial is ended as swiftly as possible, with minimal damage to impressionable young minds.
That photo can’t be from 1916. From Clothing fashion it looks like the 1930’s.
..Really ?? That is all you are worried about, the date of the photo ??
I noted the picture, wondered why it was there, and forgot it because of the article. What it seems they are trying to do is get the children to decide not to have children since having children is what is killing Gaia. Really, that is what my take of this sort of “education” is – teach them to hate themselves so they won’t have children of their own, and in so doing, depopulate the world over time. How sad that they would go ahead and waste the natural resource of children’s imaginations and energy to improve, by shutting down their desire to live at all.
As horrifying as this “self Hatred” training for children is, you all better believe it.
Been going on for many years in my country and most of the populace dont even know about it.
Check https://thedemiseofchristchurch.com/2013/03/13/are-we-experiencing-a-communist-infiltration-sponsored-by-the-united-nations/ and be sure to check the links.
Most of the more significant links are from our government education web site.
Cheers
Roger
What I see as a potential effect of this will lead to new John Wayne Glovers or Ivan Milats or for the U.S. Ted Kaczynski the Unibomber. How many of these kids will grow up to loathe society to the extent that they commit similar atrocities against those who they will grow to view as destroying their Earth?
1916 is the photographer’s birth date. The picture was taken/published in 1944.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-147030036/view
1916 is the photographer’s birth date. The picture was taken/published in 1944.”
1944 in Australia would be the 30’s in the rest of the world.
In WWII, with the Japanese navy on their doorstep, they had more important things to worry about than updating fashions.
Teaching kids the CO2-man-made-global-warming-climate-change-fear-narrative based on Gore-Suzuki astrology like science is reprehensible,
It’s Child Abuse. Civilized nations lock people away for mistreating children like that.
Exactly! Do their parents know this is happening? Where’s the outcry? This is criminal.
It *is* child abuse.
There is no outcry because parents aren’t allowed an opinion on how their children are raised. You just have to take it, or your children are punished for the mistake of having parents that “don’t understand”.
Its a crime against humanity.
It is abuse and at various points I have threatened my childs school to keep socialism disguised as environmentalism away from my children by refusing to allow them to participate in various indoctrination sessions. If you like selective home schooling. To do this you need to keep informed on the curriculum, most teachers will cooperate.
Fortunately as my children went to a private school, I was able to convince them to simply balance the propaganda by giving the other side of the debate on an unsettled science and to their credit they did that. One of my children took a sceptical position and was praised for that. In the end I didn’t need to keep them home, however It takes time and interest, you must write to the science master and insist on balance and the scientific method. I sent them the simple math that says that the models are wrong. Frankly you shouldn’t have to do that, science masters should never have let this junk get into the curriculum in the first place
@ur momisugly Sun Spot – It is reprehensible certainly – It is also a huge mistake by the alarmists – As children grow up they rebel against what they have been taught.
Have faith in the next generation – they will see this brainwashing for what it is and most likely take action against it.
I advocate Home-Schooling.
Governments and government activists have no place poisoning the minds of children from loving parents.
The governments role is to alienate children from their parents and have the children rat out their parents on a host of issues. Schools are the vehicle. Teachers are the operatives, knowingly or unknowingly.
The world is different that 80 years ago. Children can now get a superior education in a home environment.
Here in the US, most of our founding fathers were homeschooled.
And had slaves.
..Wow, that was a very dumb “straw man” argument, and please note, most slave owners were Democrats, the same party affiliation claiming CAGW today ! Hint, hint….
seaice1- you have many more slaves than any colonial landowner. You got abundant, reliable electric power and fossil fuels.
seaice1-
I’ve come to expect nothing less from you. Every time you open your anonymous mouth in these pages, I’m reminded of the fact that certain foreign powers have infiltrated and fund the Green groups. Green on the outside, Red on the inside, with paid propagandists regularly visiting every public comment site on the internet… and here.
How ironic that your philosophy leads to the enslavement of all men, at least all common men.
BTW, until the Revolution, the Founding Fathers were all British. It was their American grandchildren that put a stop to slavery.
Seaice1: From where did the FFs get their slaves?
Then again, they also had rickets, scurvy, pox, you name it. I guess that for all that they managed to produce a state that brought forth…you? Big fail there then.
Not all did-the Slavery Issue was resolved later in the blood of the civil war and the Nation
was rebuild under the very Constitution that they created…
It works…
seaice, so did most of the wealthy brits who fought against them.
At that time most people were home-schooled. It took time for local people to be able to pay for a teacher for a public school in their local community.
Children learned to read by reading the family Bible which they had even when there were no local churches in their community.
By the way, people had higher reading levels back then than they have today.
seaice1 At least in those days you still had the possibility to become a free man today you are born slave and most probably die as a slave.
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040.pdf Today form 1040 tells you you are a slave.
MSNBC Host Melissa Harris-Perry “Lean Forward”
https://youtu.be/23fxiKWFKrg
seaice1 October 17, 2016 at 8:28 am
“And had slaves.”
Really? Some did many did not and fought against allowing it into the Constitution.
As for these founding fathers are you referring to John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, or just from N.Y.Lewis Morris, William Floyed, Gouverneur Morris? Those are just a few whom you misrepresent.
As a matter of fact before you hurl stones perhaps you may wish to read the fate one those who placed their names on the Declaration of Independence.
http://www.nhccs.org/destiny.html
Yes I am aware of modern attempts to trivialize their fates, or point out it was no more then others lost. But remember that they were the ones with the most to lose. We have never produced such a generation of men such as these, and that is why so many feel the need to disparage them, for they themselves are so deficient and lacking in comparison. Yes I mean you seaice 1
michael
“BTW, until the Revolution, the Founding Fathers were all British. It was their American grandchildren that put a stop to slavery.”
Good point. Other nations brought slavery to the Americas to make money. A Civil War in the U.S. decided the matter in favor of freedom for all.
Over 600,000 white men died or were injured in the effort to free the slaves. I would say that exonerates subsequent American generations of the stain of slavery.
From the Wiki, seaice1;
History of slavery
The history of slavery spans nearly every culture, nationality, and religion and from ancient times to the present day. …
You are wrong sea1ice.
Yes, a few had slaves; mostly through inheritances and several did purchase new slaves.
But the founding Fathers from the Northern colonies did not have slaves. And the argument over whether the new Constitution should disallow slavery was a majority opinion, but those lines were deleted in order to gain support from state legislators in the Southern slaveholding states.
An argument that recurred regularly every year until half way through the Civil War.
Although there are still many areas of the world that still practice slavery, as a country the U.S. only held slaves from 1776 to 1865, 89 years. It was practiced in the British colonies though.but they were British colonies at the time
The problem with home schooling is is the difficulty with socializing the kids. About half of what they need to learn comes from interaction with other kids.
Not so. My grandchildren are home schooled and doing quite well. My children were all schooled in public schools (in Oklahoma) and are also doing quite well.
Not even close to being true. There are dozens of other ways that kids can get socialization.
Playing with neighborhood kids. Church groups. After school activities such sports or dance/music/etc.
As to the socialization that they get from other school kids. Most that has to be unlearned before they can become productive citizens.
That’s a myth. A lot of homeschoolers actually play school sports are involved in school plays and music programs ect. They are not schooled in caves in the middle of the woods.
“A lot of homeschoolers actually play school sports are involved in school plays and music programs ect.”
Hopefully they also learn not to say “ect”. 😉
“I advocate Home-Schooling.”
Watching the movie “Dog Tooth” may change your mind. 😉
Home schooling can be done well, but it requires time, effort, and skill. Most home schooled children do very well because their parents are extremely qualified to teach them. However, but many who are held back from school for knee-jerk political or religious reasons are taught by unqualified and unprepared parents and end up being VERY behind, which ruins the averages.
There’s a reason why it’s called FICTION.
Go online and read about what’s involved in home-schooling and the costs.
Usually costs less than a private school and there are home-school support groups.
Then decide what you want your children to learn.
This is government sponsored education program in NSW.
Self loathing as a curriculum, sort of reminiscent of Pol Pot.
And other fire&brimstone original sin religions .
You are made out of carbon from CO2 . Thus you are evil down to the molecular level .
What a corrupt message to be indoctrinating children with .
A reversal of self-esteem at just the right moment in life. A tactic which makes for well-behaved drones. They can build back their self worth by notifying the authorities when a non-believer is detected in their midst.
Original sin, also called ancestral sin, is the Christian doctrine of humanity’s state of sin resulting from the fall of man, stemming from Adam and Eve’s rebellion in Eden, namely the sin of disobedience in consuming from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. [Wikipedia]
You are born with an original sin, and the only way to get rid of it is to do as the Church says (not as it does).
It never ceases to amaze me how little atheists know about religion.
It’s almost as if they fear to learn anything about the thing they hate, for fear they might learn out how wrong they are.
CG: As usual, completely wrong. Christ himself declared that faith alone is sufficient. Works are not needed.
Watch out CG, the religious warriors will be on your tail, screaming, “That’s not what the bible said, because…. …………. Jesus!”
Calm down guys, don’t get upset because we don’t fear your god.
Interesting. Correcting a factual misrepesentation is “getting on your tail”?
Are you normally this paranoid?
Nobody said that you fear God, the claim is that you fear knowledge, because it might lead to believe that you are wrong.
Pointing out an error of fact is “getting on your tail”?
Do you always react so negatively to correction?
Nobody ever claimed that you fear our God. So stop with the silly goal post moving.
The issue is that you fear basic facts? Why, I believe it’s because you are afraid that you might learn that you have been wrong all these years.
“You are born with an original sin, and the only way to get rid of it is to do as the Church says (not as it does).”
Not quite, according to the Book. Adam’s sin is the reason “fleshly” death awaits us all, which we are not offered a way around. The sin we ourselves commit is what endangers our potentially eternal “spiritual” life, which is a far more grievous loss, naturally. That’s what Christ offers us a way around.
And lo it has come to pass: now they’re on my tail, telling me I’m, “afraid of facts”.
There’s nothing to be afraid of, as it’s all a fairy story. Just like the green religion attempts to scare people into fearing ‘carbon’ by dreaming up daft fantasies about imminent thermageddon.
What a daring young man ; )
A curriculum, sort of reminiscent of ……………..
…How apt…Thanx…
My guess is 1960.
It looks like a photo from my childhood.
16 and 60 sound similar.
I have an almost identical (both in clothes and hairstyle) photo of my childhood, which was taken in 1952.
Sometime around 1950 looks right to me . Consider the desks .
http://cosy.com/y16/WattsUpWithThat_1017_schoolChildrenCrop.jpg
Dude, it’s black and white, so it must be, like, old. ^¿^
If taught humans are the problem, that should increase sociopathic behavior and correct the problem. The people pushing this are mentally ill and need to be incarcerated.
Funny, if Lew was any kind of psycho he would have a paper on this in no time. Talk about ideation…
Environmentalists hate children.
The hyperbole is strong in this one.
..Well, how else do you think they want to achieve their goal of a 60% reduction in Humans to “Save Planet Earth” ??
Progressives hate reality . They seek power on the conceit that they can subdue it by social will and the subjugation of their fellow citizens .
Accuracy is now hyperbole?
Interesting.
Only 60%? I thought the target was about 100 million.
..This is not just indoctrination, this is child abuse, and should be punishable with jail time…Absolutely disgusting that any parent or government official would allow this..
I would have thought they’d not have time to teach anything other than how the “invaders” destroyed Aboriginal culture. My child knows nothing of the Magna Carta or Declaration of Independence or even the articles of Federation but all sorts of oral/ made up last week fictional history.
Module 2 is on assisted suicide.
Insidiously not funny…it is true in fact.
Schools teach kids to hate themselves and to see themselves as simply farm animals. Then they teach them to fornicate in countless number of ways, BUT only if contraception is used. So have fun and use each other but NEVER reproduce. If by chance a baby happens, kill it in the womb. If it gets big in the womb, pull it out somewhat and snip its spinal cord. If it is born, tax the family into poverty. Force the children into government indoctrination centers where they learn to hate themselves. Usher in assisted suicide as a norm and promote the self in lieu of children. then..
while childrenexist=true do
repeat the above;
It is the Club of Rome solution.
It is intentional.
Margaret Sanger, who referred to black people as “Human Weeds” started the whole process ~100 years ago.
Death of the child, or death of the child’s mind or death of the family of the child.
Death is the ultimate goal.
…+ 1,999,999 Gold stars…Well stated, and, unfortunately very true…
Whilst you’re right about the evil Club of Rome, I have to attest that there’s nothing wrong with a bit of protected fornication.
David Smith,
There is something wrong with it.
I said “Then they teach them to fornicate…” There is definitely something wrong with schools teaching 8 year olds to fornicate.
Paul,
If you mean teach them the facts of life, that isn’t quite the same as encouraging 8 year olds to have a go at fornication themselves.
“Module 2 is on assisted suicide.”
This is not a funny joke because for some sensitive adolescents this option is a grim reality, as I know by a first-hand experience in my own social environment.
Some years ago, a very smart but also quite sensitive high school girl of about 17 was very depressed and committed eventually suicide for she was convinced that mankind will destroy planet Earth by pollution and climate change.
Until her funeral ceremony, where it was revealed in great detail by her parents, I didn’t know the reason for her depression. Had I known it earlier, I would have tried to stop her depression by giving her some enlightening information about the really known facts about AGW and other alleged pseudo-disasters of our environment. But alas, it was to late then…
I’m afraid, this might be not the only case where a suicide of a child or adolescent was triggered or at least partly promoted by the endless scaremongering and self-hate propaganda of organizations and people like GREEN PEACE, WWF or Bill McKibben.
Hey, Teachers, leave us kids alone!
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Teaching is a thankless job that carries with it the constant risk of being accused of a sex offence by any disgruntled kid. It is the institution itself that creates the ‘little monsters’ more so than the teachers, most of whom are well-meaning and try to do their job to the best of their ability.
We are well aware that prisons don’t work as a means of reform; all they do is turn part-time crooks into professional crooks. Yet, we somehow imagine that sending kids to a very similar-looking institution is a good idea. It is often overlooked that the modern schooling system is a product of the proto-Nazi political party in early 20thC Germany. Its original purpose was to instil obedience in the working classes, along with basic literacy and numeracy skills such as would allow them to carry out orders from above.
A major problem with the school environment is bullying, and strangely enough, the power of the Nazi hierarchy depended to a great extent on bullying, too. Instead of trying to tackle this problem, the administrators try to pretend that the bullying doesn’t go on. Any admission that it did, would after all be an admission that the system itself is fundamentally flawed.
That aside, schools are an ideal stomping-ground for propagandists of all kinds. A captive audience who can be not only lectured-at with no option to leave, but then forced to repeat the dogma ad nauseam until it is echoing round and round inside their heads. What more could they want?
What kids are taught sticks with them, and they will resist un-learning later in life. They might hate themselves the rest of their lives.
Reminds me of the myth that lemmings stampede into the sea and commit mass suicide. That, as many know, was a theatrical exercise by a dishonest wildlife photographer. They lied to us. Several generations of Americans still think lemmings stampede into the sea every year. My 30 something children still think lemmings do this. http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141122-the-truth-about-lemmings
What’s their metric for considering the trial “successful”? How much propaganda these children can regurgitate?
By how hard they cry when they see a Polar Bear “stranded” on a tiny piece of floating ice !
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01588/bear-floe_1588455c.jpg
Meanwhile, the seals are having a party on the beach.
It appears to be from 1944. See the link
https://www.flickr.com/photos/national_library_of_australia_commons/6173548511/
1916 is likely Jim Fitzpatrick’s date of birth.
How on earth are children at this level supposed to build a scientific argument for the proposal that climate change is going to destroy(!?) sunsets and waterways? This is a very dangerous game being played out here. If my children were involved I’d be taking them out of lessons and/or suing the school board.
Why bring science into a perfectly satisfactory indoctrination? You will be forcing them to look at data next!
“If my children were involved I’d be taking them out of lessons and/or suing the school board.”
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I hope parents do exactly that.
This amounts to a horrible form of child abuse, and those perpetrating it are nothing less than monsters.
When my children were taught climate doom, they were immediately skeptical and dismissive. As were many of their friends. The good news is that many kids recognize propaganda when they see it. The bad news of course is that many don’t.
We already knew from the 10-10 video how evil the AGW movement is. In their hearts, they’ve already murdered children. Torturing them psychologically and experimenting on them is only to be expected.
Thankfully children do have good BS detectors.
However the parasites require an uninformed and compliant electorate to exploit.
The mendacity and outright evil actions of those who claim CAGW, is more evidence that persons this gullible are unfit to hold positions of authority.
Whether fools or bandits their actions,such as attempting to corrupt children, speak for themselves.
Eugenics and witchburning are back.
There is a history of telling children about doomsday – only recently I was reading about ‘duck and cover’ and the effects of the H bomb being taught to US schoolkids in the 50s/60s…
..Hey Griff, that was for safety and survival…Are you claiming there was no Russian nuclear threat ?? Can you ever pull pull your head out of your @ss to look at the REAL world around you ?
Both Fascism & Communism were founded, funded & fostered by the banksters.
Keeping people at war, even the cold war, is profitable.
Book: Pawns in the Game, William Guy Carr.
Book: The Creature from Jekyll Island, G. Edward Griffin.
John Doran.
Are you really that stupid, Griff? Rhetorical question. Of course you are.
[snip -starting a food fight -mod]
[SNIP – WE DON’T CARE -mod]
That’s because the H-bomb did actually exist and was a real threat to everyone.
And hiding under your desk will protect you from a thermonuclear explosion ?
“And hiding under your desk will protect you from a thermonuclear explosion ?”
Yes, it very well might. You should read the book “Hiroshima” published in the 1950’s, right after World War II. It describes the effects of the nuclear blast on people, and it shows that people survived quite close to the center of the blast, if they were shielded from the direct effects of the blast.
From the way Putin sounds, we might want to start teaching these “duck and cover” lessons again. Putin is telling his citizens to seek out and find nuclear shelters near them and be prepared for the worst. Maybe we should be paying attention. Putin sent a small flotilla of Russian warships into the English Channel yesterday. Puting says *we* are provoking the tension.
The U.S. has reinstated some of its bomber runs towards Russia in recent days, after months of provocation from Putin. But it is not the U.S. that is buzzing Russia’s ships and aircraft, it is Russia buzzing ours. So resuming nuclear bombing runs is an appropriate measure. I guess even Obama is not going to roll over completely.
If Putin escalates, then we are going to escalate. No doubt about it.
All this activity may be a bluff on Putin’s part to scare Obama into inaction when Putin makes a move on some eastern-European territory. If that’s the case, then Puting will be making this move in the next three months or sooner, before Obama leaves Office.
I hope that’s what he is doing. That’s better than Putin losing his mind, and suddenly becoming paranoid, and really thinking the U.S. is about to attack him and he better attack first. If that’s the case, let’s hope saner heads prevail in Russia.
Whatever is going on is quite orchestrated. On one hand we have a voice from th past, Gorbachev, warning about war with the U.S. And we have the government of Turkey sounding warnings about a war between Russia and the U.S. Lots of wardrums beating for some reason, and the U.S. is not actively provoking anyone.
The world spirals out of control when the U.S. abdicates it leadership position. That’s what you see happening before your eyes right now. Thanks, Obama/leftists.
It probably wouldn’t hurt to buy yourself a months’ supply of canned goods.
Griff
I was one of those kids doing the duck and cover drills. I recall no hatred being taught, and in particular no self-hatred.
It all seemed rather low-key and practical given the fact that there was a period of time when our school was maybe 30 minutes button-to-bloodshed away from Russian missiles in Cuba, thanks largely to the weakness-waffling of Kennedy at the Bay of Pigs, etc. But its a good thing our current leadership would never think of training surrogate forces and then walking away from them when things get hot…
Griff, there is a considerable difference between teaching children survival techniques suitable for a real existential threat, and teaching self-hatred and hatred of their species over a non-existent threat that exists only in the fevered imaginations of guilt-tripped self-hating scientifically illiterate “Liberals” such as yourself.
That’s called “child abuse”, and is very likely to cause those children to develop psychiatric problems including self-harm and even suicide.
Ah Griff, your young age is showing. I live in Canada. I grew near the US/Canada border, not a long way north of a major SAC base in Spokane, Washington. We were taught “duck and cover” too because in the event of war or missile attack much of the battle could have been over our heads. We often watched the contrails from bombers and fighters doing mock battles in the sky above us. We toured missile silos and military aircraft. Duck and cover may have been a useless concept, but for those of us who had family in the military, or in cadets being given survival training or training to fight a guerilla war in the event of an invasion back in the 50’s and 60’s, it was pretty real stuff. Sounds nuts, but it was and still is very palpable. Much more real than a few degrees of temperature change somewhere in the world that probably is a net benefit to humans. As for me, my world is currently about 10 degrees C below “normal”. But next week, who knows. Maybe we will get some of our crops off. But a least I no longer worry about Bomark missiles and ICBM’s falling out of the sky.
The day JFK was killed, many of us thought the loud speaker announcement was going to be about a missile attack. Most of the world has come a long way since then. Most.
Have a good safe day.
Life is good.
Wayne Delbeke
PS: A light coat is a lot easier to doff than crawling in and out of a bomb shelter.
Evil.
Simple as that.
..Yes, that sums it up nicely…a little too polite but, it will do…
Parents could instruct their children not to participate in this class and deliberately fail it while excelling at all others and then band together to hash this out with the schoolmasters in court.
Home-school your children.
One of the results of local school boards losing control over their school districts?
This situation gets worse and worse.
Maybe that’s a role grandparents can fill. My wife and I are fortunate enough to be retired at 60, so we could teach our grandchildren if and when our daughter, who is almost 30, ever has any. She is a product of the affluent societal thinking that kids are not necessary for her own fulfillment and cramp her activities during the little time she is not working 2 jobs to support herself and put her mate through grad school.
I also believe that learning to get along with peers who are not family is an important component of early education. Organized group learning with an expectation of self-control and participation from each child is vital in building social skills and self-esteem. This is not available to an only child whose parents are the sole educators.
I also have watched others homeschooling and know that the curriculum materials are expensive. If you’re on welfare, often your kids have to go to public school just so they get fed properly. Then, what do we do for those who don’t have a sufficient education themselves to teach anything to their offspring?
Homeschooling is not a universal option.
If parents have high school diploma, then they can go through grade 8. University graduates can go through grade 12.
There are organizations that provide computers to children who can’t afford them.
And sometimes children can become a mob of little monsters in a school. So much for socializing!
Some curriculums are expensive. Others are dirt cheap. My wife is using an on line course that is less than $100/yr.
Funny nuff, homeschooled children are excelling in colleges around the country.
First of all I rhought pollution was the cause of beautiful sunsets. 🙂
Logos-wrench
Exactly:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2588838/How-19th-century-art-painting-picture-Earths-polluted-past-Turners-sunsets-reveal-volcanic-ash-gas-sky.html
Don’t think of it as teaching children self hatred and doomsday. Think of it as preparing them to fill out grant applications.
So … to sum up the modern ways of raising children. Spanking children ruins their self-esteem and is bad for them. Telling children people are evil and hurting mother earth is good for them. Got it.
(P.S. My parents spanked me, a lot. And now that I am older I am glad they did.)
It has started already. Apparently, my four-year-old grand-daughter in New Zealand was upset recently after learning that the polar bears will soon have nowhere to live because of global warming. These people should not be allowed within a mile of children!!!
Tim Southgate
Well, you can inform your grand daughter that the polar bears will do just fine. The oldest known fossil of a Polar Bear is about 120,000 years old, which is about the time of the last inter glacial. And then there is fossil evidence that Polar Bear’s molar teeth changed significantly from those of the brown bear between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago. That would be about the time the ice caps were retreating before the current inter glacial. This would indicate that not only are polar bears a recent adaption but that they favour retreating ice, which might also explain why they are such good swimmers. Maybe she wouldn’t understand all that but I would hope her teachers do.
Why such concern for polar bears, anyway? Why not concern for the seals or penguins they eat? They are basically the biological equivalent of an amphibious tank, and just as deadly.
Some of these tear-jerker stories are so illogical.