Climate change: First bill written by children on climate education
Children should be taught climate change in more depth and in all subjects, experts and students themselves have told BBC News.
Current teaching is leaving children unprepared to live in a warming world, they warn.
Children should be taught climate change in more depth and in all subjects, experts and students themselves have told BBC News.
Current teaching is leaving children unprepared to live in a warming world, they warn.
There’ll never be a Utopia, and it’s only a form of lying to set such ideals before the multitude.
George Gissing - Denzil Quarrier (1892)
George Gissing - Denzil Quarrier (1892)
It's an argument we could easily make about the climate narrative - behind it is just another Utopia. In this respect it isn't even new, just an old fantasy dressed up in new lies. Teaching the lies to children, even that isn't new.
4 comments:
"But teenage campaigners say that because climate change is affecting all parts of our lives, it should be taught in all subjects."
Sure! Let's teach them the correct formula for how much CO2 is needed to raise the earth's temperature by a given amount. That's pretty basis, and surely needs understanding by every child.
Only when they've got that bit right, and shown all their working, can they go on to do the poetry, drama, and debating skills.
Unteaching them then becomes a lifelong task. Waste of time and energy. So much damage being done.
When are they all going to return to the mindset of school children when I was a child in the 1960s where the commonly held opinion was that teachers were idiots and you shouldn't believe a word they said?
Sam - better still, they could work out how much UK CO2 would raise the global temperature by a detectable amount and how long it would take.
James - global cooling could unteach them, but even then it would not be all of them.
Tammly - my teachers didn't really say much beyond their subject. A physics teacher did, but only in connection with broader areas of physics.
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