What's the point of teaching children to deny climate change? So that they won't go and find a solution? Are they trying to eliminate human beings?
At this point I think there might just be an element of pure reaction and contrarianism involved. Dying's worth it as long as you own the commie nazi libs or whatever
Yeah I'm seeing this at the level of my provincial government (Alberta) all green energy projects being indefinitely canceled/ not being approved in favor of oil and gas based power. Ostensibly to protect jobs but the rhetoric used about it clearly just being backlash against the commie libs (and Turdeau of course)
I'm all for getting a diversity of perspective, but information presented in an academic environment should meet a higher standard than "I found this on a political radio talk show host's site and I'm going to present it as the truth". It should be presented as an opinion and not as a fact. The best thing kids can be taught by their parents/guardian/teacher is how logically assess information in a systematic manner.
For those that want to be informed, here’s the animation produced by PragerU and enforced for the Florida school’s curriculum:
https://www.prageru.com/video/poland-anias-energy-crisis
And here’s a more thorough article with facts and details, that does beyond calling a Reddit user and expert for a clickbait headline:
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2023/08/prageru-climate-skeptic-science-florida-education/
Review the details and draw your own conclusions, don’t listen to Reddit (or Lemmy) users. Because knowing is half the battle.
Just a reminder that PragerU made a video defending racism and slavery.
The “expert” quoted was an unidentified Reddit user! Nowhere in the article was it stated what was being taught. This isn’t an article for information, it’s just an attempt to fan the flames of division.
Not saying I agree or not with what’s happening in (surprise) Florida. Just saying nothing in this article provides for discussion or critical thinking about the topic.
“It’s evil more than it is stupid,” said a Reddit user discussing the Guardian article, while another lamented the forces enabling this and anti-environmental policy planning like Project 2025 as “doing the bidding of oil companies.”
Article sounds stupid, but so is complaining about "fanning the flames of division" in the context of writing criticism of a thinktank-made curriculum
A "think tank" and Prager U should never be confused. There is no thinking going on at Prager U.
I wonder if other well-known industry groups are also called our for their propganda? For example recycling is pushed by the plastic industry, the notion of "clean coal" is pushed by coal mining, and of course the entire notion of volunteering for charity is just Capitalism ensuring that societal problems will never try to be tackled by a Government.
This is no different.
