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Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Willie Soon – anyone else worried about where this government funded programme could lead?
These inmates are learning about climate change
It can help prisoners feel connected to something larger than themselves.
In 2017, nearly a hundred inmates at the Stafford Creek Corrections Center in Washington state learned about climate change threats and disaster resilience.
Bush: “We feel that incarcerated people have been overlooked as participants in the environmental movement. We need to engage all people.”
Kelli Bush of Evergreen State College codirects the Sustainability in Prisons Project. The initiative runs environmental education programs at Washington’s 12 state prisons.
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Read more: https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2018/06/inmates-learn-about-climate-change/
From the Sustainability in Prisons website;
… Mission: We empower sustainable change by bringing nature, science, and environmental education into prisons.
VISION
In response to the dual crises of ecological degradation and mass incarceration, we aim to reduce recidivism while improving human well-being and ecosystem health. SPP brings together incarcerated individuals, scientists, corrections staff, students, and program partners to promote education, conserve biodiversity, practice sustainability, and help build healthy communities. Together, we reduce the environmental, economic, and human costs of prisons. …
Gee, what could go wrong with indoctrinating a bunch of violent psychopaths with ideas that the world is about to end, nobody is listening, overpopulation is part of the problem, you are less likely to get into trouble for committing crimes if you are a climate zealot, and that everyone has to do their bit to help save the world?
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Great. Teach a bunch of people who are career liers, cheaters and thieves, dogma that’s consistent with lying, cheating and stealing.
Wonderful, teaching inmates to be thugs for the environmental movement. What could possibly go wrong?
In your guts you know they are nuts Paraphrase from 64 us elections
In years to come, this will be variously referred to as “The Stafford Experiment” or “The Other Stanford Experiment.”
From the link provided. Is pot legal there?
“In a single growing season, prison gardens grew ~492,000 lbs. of produce for food banks and prison kitchens; one example.
In six years of the Taylor’s checkerspot butterfly program, reared and released more than 13,000 caterpillars and adult butterflies onto south Salish lowland prairies.
Since 2013, more than 1,100 students graduated from a 50-hour environmental course prepared for environmental careers, resource savings, and positive community involvement.
Since 2009, prairie conservation nurseries grew and delivered more than 2 million rare and endangered species for Salish lowland prairie restoration projects.
Our report for July 1, 2016 – June 30, 2017 describes more than 180 programs! See the summary or full text.”
I am just going to leave this here.
Maybe someone can pick it up and make a post about it…a topic most of us here well understand, but which I have never heard discussed in exactly this way.
On the limits of expertise, and why trusting a surgeon or an auto mechanic to have mastery over his craft is different than trusting a scientist with our entire economy based on his or her claimed mastery of whatever it is they do:
http://www.quillette.com/2018/06/04/the-limits-of-expertise/
Hmmm, it seems the link I attached will not post.
I found it but the address is different. No “www” and https. See if this works with tags and just a link.
The Limits of Expertise
https://quillette.com/2018/06/04/the-limits-of-expertise/
that site will connect both securely and unencrypted. The error was the extra www
Wow, they are desperate, they need a captive audience!
An excellent article. It seems so obvious. Why do people make the mistake of thinking they can predict the outcome of chaotic systems? From whence comes their hubris?
When it comes to MBAs, Henry Mintzberg lays the blame at the feet of the schools.
How bad is it?
There is a huge amount of evidence about the limits of expertise. The only people who don’t seem to know about it are the experts. At some point in their education, experts should be explicitly taught their limits and the dangers of hubris.
The human brain is designed to find patterns in the chaos.
The problem is that sometimes you end up finding patterns that aren’t really there. Or you do find a pattern and assume that it will continue, when it can’t.
“Gee, what could go wrong with indoctrinating a bunch of violent psychopaths with ideas that the world is about to end, nobody is listening, overpopulation is part of the problem, you are less likely to get into trouble for committing crimes if you are a climate zealot, and that everyone has to do their bit to help save the world?”
I see this somewhat differently, namely as a transparent effort to gin up an army of muscle.
Like an enforcement arm for the warmista climate mafia.
“…Later in 1914, the Ottoman government influenced the direction the Special Organization was to take by releasing criminals from central prisons to be the central elements of this newly formed Special Organization.[77] According to the Mazhar commissions attached to the tribunal as soon as November 1914, 124 criminals were released from Bünyan prison.[78] Little by little from the end of 1914 to the beginning of 1915, hundreds, then thousands of prisoners were freed to form the members of this organization. Later, they were charged with escorting the convoys of Armenian deportees.[79] Vehib Pasha, commander of the Ottoman Third Army, called those members of the Special Organization the ‘butchers of the human species’.[80]” –Wikipedia Armenian Genocide entry.
Perhaps this experiment should be terminated immediately.
“Re-education camps” is the current euphemism for the Gulag, so the watermelons are just following their culture.
Kelli Bush couldn’t get a real job it seems.
Bank robbers and criminals discovered the benefits of car-sharing long before ecologists started promoting it.
In California they are now allowed to use the decongested left-hand lane to get away quicker.
If this takes off it will end up tarnishing the environmental image.
MattS
It’ll doubtless be their appeal to humanitarianism.
Whilst 120,000,000 people in developing countries will die prematurely by 2050 (32 years away) from conditions caused by burning wood for cooking and heating because they have no access to clean electricity.
Then there’s 2,000,000 who go blind every year, then die prematurely, most of them children, from vitamin A deficiency which can be addressed by allowing them to grow golden rice.
But the prisoners are educated in green ethics, so that’s OK.
If we ever get to bring the people responsible for the activity we have seen in some aspects of Climate Change activism before the courts, I think that they will end up preaching to a large percentage of the already converted…
I say if it keeps the “violent psychopaths” out of the schools
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/06/training-the-next-generation-of-climate-earth-warriors/
It’s all to the good.
James Bull
It does seem a bit shortsighted to take individuals who have demonstrated a lack of concern for the rules that keep us safe and and comfortable, and who have acted in an antisocial, highly self-serving way, and educate them in the climate religion which believe humans are a plague on Earth to be disciplined and contained. A bit too convenient an excuse for future criminal activity.
Teaching Inmates Climate Dogma Helps them “Feel Connected to Something Larger”
Well, sure, many cults make people feel connected, at first.
Will it improve their chances with the kool aid- sipping parole board? Go for it.
Leave it to Uncle Sugar to teach criminals the finer art of the collectivist Grift. There ought to be a law but that would require that the crooked Temple Monkeys block themselves from one of their more lucrative methods of tax transfer payments for profits.
Earlier studies demonstrate that when leftists feel they have earned moral points in the service of a larger purpose they feel entitled to pay themselves back by allowing themselves to commit personal wrongs. NOT a psychological process that we should be inducing in people who have already been jailed for their callousness towards the rights and welfare of others.
“These inmates are learning about climate change
It can help prisoners feel connected to something larger than themselves.”
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Ghee Whizz; and after training suspainability they go dead man walking.
Obama cares.
Wrong from the beginning to label “birther” on Obama.
The never ending revenge stays “russian collusion”.
correct me where I’m wrong.