Labour’s Soviet-Style Plan to Shoehorn Climate Alarmism into Every School Subject
The Daily Sceptic recently carried a piece warning about the Labour Party’s pending plans to create a new “cutting-edge curriculum” for Britain’s schools, the term “cutting-edge” here really meaning “filled to the brim with climate crap to indoctrinate the helpless young”. According to a report by the exam body OCR, which will be closely drawn upon by Labour for its planned re-write-cum-ruination of the syllabus, climate change is “the biggest existential crisis of our age”, and therefore children must urgently be taught how to become “carbon literate”, a skill which in the past merely meant being able to write their names using a pencil.
The only truly “cutting-edge” thing about the whole scheme will be making toddlers and teens want to slit their wrists in sheer climate-despair. So green-at-the-gills will Britain’s children inevitably become that the OCR warns a comprehensive programme of “eco-therapy” will later be needed in order to prevent them all succumbing to depression at the terrifying prospect of so many dead whales and sad polar bears. Might a better cure for this ailment not simply be to avoid having teachers shove all this alarmist dogma down their throats like captive goslings being fattened up for pseudo-educational foie gras in the first place?
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Well Greta ‘Perma-Victim’ Thunberg is going to run out of juice at some point, so the zealots will need to produce a fresh-faced child replacement who can manage to garner sympathy from naive members of the public for years to come ( ”Ah leave her alone, she’s only a bairn..” ) and keep pulling the crowds in….Speaking of zealots, here’s a man who’s completely off his nut and knows a thing or two about the power of Kool-Aid; ( and it’s not even paywalled ) ”Ed Miliband is to overrule local residents in a planning shake-up that will pave the way for thousands more wind turbines across Britain. As part of his renewables blitz, the Energy Secretary is seeking to classify wind turbines and solar farms as “nationally significant infrastructure projects”, meaning they will be treated with the same level of importance as airports and power plants. The shake-up will effectively strip residents, communities and councils of their powers to block, amend or delay green energy projects, which Mr Miliband wants to build across swathes of countryside. While claiming it will reduce Britain’s reliance on gas and save households money in the future, the proposal makes no mention of Mr Miliband’s controversial… Read more »
The zealots will need to produce a fresh-faced child replacement
They’ll introduce Green Guards modelled on Mao’s Red Guards. A few years ago some of the local primary schools paraded the children in their charge round town. These seven and eight-year-olds had been propagandised into believing that the world was about to end, and that it was all the adults’ fault.
Blimey. Hopefully these kids will eventually be disabused of this bullshit.
My kneejerk reaction to this, as with many other things, is that the state should get the hell out of the business of education. If we want to have a social safety net for people too poor to afford it, we can give them vouchers to use at the school of their choice.
It still amazes me that people think the cure for bad drivers being on control of cars could be to abolish cars. Did it ever occur to you that you could be confusing cause and effect, ie, that all the people seeking to establish climate indoctrination for children from the womb till voting age work for the state because the state controls education and not that states naturally want climate indoctrination for everyone? They didn’t in the past. There was a time when (village) teacher was essentially a retirement post for non-commissioned officer in the Prussia. They didn’t teach Marxism or Post-Marxism back then, rather punctuality, discipline and patriotism. The state getting out of education doesn’t necessarily mean that all the people who presently work in state education will get out of it as well. Most of them probably wouldn’t as education is still their domain of expertise. And they could then decide to teach your children that they must all have surgery to make them look like a caricature of the other sex and stop them from ever having children of their own “because of the climate” with no chance of interference by the so-called electorate. They’d probably very… Read more »
It’s about creating choice.
I don’t think it’s realistic to believe that the state won’t abuse its power.
The state is an abstract entity and as such, it’s incapable of doing anything.
If I don’t like state schools, for now I still have the choice to send my kids to private school, but I get no refund of my tax money and if I wthhold part of my taxes I will be eventually carted off to prison by force.
A private school has to be registered with the DFE – if you set up a unlicensed school you can be prosecuted – if you refuse to pay an eventual fine you will be carted off to prison by force.
If that’s supposed to be related to the statement I made, I don’t understand how. The public [i.e. state] school system in Britain is doubtlessly f***ed. The trick with the comprehensives is proof of that. Gifted children are forced into comprehensive because while this causes them to fall short of what they could otherwise have achieved, they still raise the average performance there because of the presence, thus giving a wrong impression of some benefit of that despite the exact opposite is happening: Children who could do better at school are artifically hampered. And the knuckledraggers perform just as bad as they had done without them. But that’s not because it’s public but because the wrong kind of people or rather, the wrong kind of political ideologies, have been allowed to shape it for their own benefit. Comprehensives never really caught on in Germany because the same political forces have been met with stubborn resistance of all involved parties, especially, parents. Only in Bremen, where the SPD has been ruling since ever, have things degenerated to the point where kids aren’t even taught to read and write and to do basic arithmetic anymore because a common language which could be… Read more »
“The state is an abstract entity and as such, it’s incapable of doing anything”
If I set up an unregistered school, or refuse to pay tax for education, I will end up in prison. Nothing abstract about that.
What is taught in schools is presumably OK with the majority because the majority keep voting for woke socialist parties. If they want their children educated like that, that’s fine with me. I just don’t want to be forced to fund it or take part in it.
Did a guy called state, possibly dressed in a trans-inclusive rainbow flag, show up at your door with a spiked club and make you do anything? Or were this some other people under orders from yet other people?
The state is abstract. It cannot do anything. And it doesn’t even have a political direction of its own. All of this comes from people in control of the state apparatus. Eg, there used to be a time when the civil service was a bulwark of conservatism. But when the conservative party got hijacked by people whose only ‘offer’ for civil servants was “I want to make you miserable and unempoyed!”, this obviously changed. And not for the better.
We already had the the issue of people passively ‘voting’ for something because they have no realistic choice not to. Even if this wasn’t the case, people could just be wrong about this.
I try not to break the law so I’ve not gone to prison, but were I to refuse to pay tax and then not pay the fine I certainly would go to prison.
I think “people” are wrong about many things – but I have no wish to impose my views on them, as long as they do me the same courtesy.
Anyway this discussion is pointless – I believe in much more limited government because I think governments cannot be trusted with much. You think that “good government” is possible – you keep talking about Prussia. You need to convince everyone else that your idea of “good government” is what should happen, and I need to convince everyone else that limited government is best. Neither of us has much chance of succeeding.
To me, this is an abstract discussion and my idea of “good government” would be mostly one which enables me to mind my own business by not expecting me to worry about politics. That’s certainly not going to happen with a government whose mission statement is “Change everything for better according to ideas of a bunch of long dead German post-marxists.” (the so-called Frankfurt School).
OTOH, I’m not naive enough to believe that Hobbes’ homo homini lupus est wasn’t true. Ie, I don’t believe in the Marxist utopia of a repression-free communal anarchy, be it only because I’ve already been forced to spent too much time of my life worrying about the safety of using public toilets when you’re not Alan Turing. And I don’t share your view about the special nature of government which makes people do something they otherwise wouldn’t. The people who want climate change propaganda instead of education for pupils would seek and very likely find (they’re quite rich, after all) another way achieve that when someone would take the ‘official’ state away from them.
“To me, this is an abstract discussion and my idea of “good government” would be mostly one which enables me to mind my own business by not expecting me to worry about politics”
Mine too – I’d vote for you!
The state has a monopoly on the use of force and I have found people more prone to behaving like shits in groups rather than individually. I think it’s fine for the state to employ a police force and to lock people up for committing serious crimes after due process of law – I struggle to see much alternative other than something rather unpleasant. I just don’t think the state needs to run schools, or “license” them.
The initial problem is that the schools are forced to follow the 2008 Climate Change Act’s logic, and the mistake is in believing that CO2 has an appreciable effect on climate, and not investigating the influence the Sun has. It isn’t just radiance, there’s high energy particles and Electromagnetic connections. But meteorologists don’t appear to want to learn about it. It’s probably beyond their undergraduate education.
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Indeed, but as stewart points out earlier there are other topics on which there is an agenda. I just think parents should be able to spend their money on the education they think is right for their children.
We need to be more like pigs, than sheep!
At least they will not be propagandising tractor statistics as the numbers drop and drop due to inheritance taxes making farming inefficient.
I hate to break it to everyone but gender, race, homosexuality and climate are already integrated into pretty much every subject in the curriculum in England.
Sciences and geography are all full of references to climate change.
History students studying the first and second world wars have to do specific topics on the role of women and coloured people played and get specific questions on it. They are taught that the Nazis persecuted transsexuals, homosexuals and coloured people. They are told in detail which German officials were supposedly homoswxuals, presumably to highlight their hypocrisy. And students know that questions will almost certainly come up on these.
In foreign languages students have to learn the language of climate science and gay rights and know they will get texts and questions on it.
This horse bolted from the stables a looooong time ago.
The only thing that is changing is people’s awareness of it.
So presumably when teaching the Crusades, teachers have to explain that as tall cranes didn’t exist then, the Mohammedans had to resort to throwing homosexuals off tall walls.
Off Topic
Let the fools/tyrants in charge of two hospitals know that their reintroduction of mask mandates is not cool.
Hull:
hyp-tr.complaints.internal@nhs.net
Lincolnshire:
lhnt.lchsecomms@nhs.net
Here’s my little missive to them just now:
Hello,
I gather you are reintroducing face mask mandates.
Well, I am going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you are doing this because you’re merely following orders, or misguided, or just plain stupid. There was never any evidence that face masks do anything other than cause great problems.
I am NOT going to assume you’re doing this because you’re control freaks who get off on bossing people around and watching how people in their hour of need are degraded and prevented from conducting proper communication with those they love and those who are supposed to be helping them.
STOP IT NOW. FACE MASKS ARE WORSE THAN USELESS.
Yours faithfully,
MAk
The aim of marxo-fascist education is not to teach children useful skills but to turn them into compliant, unquestioning slaves.
the OCR warns a comprehensive programme of “eco-therapy” will later be needed in order to prevent them all succumbing to depression at the terrifying prospect of so many dead whales and sad polar bears
Dear me, kids have enough to deal with without this climate torture. If my grandkids start lecturing me, I will have to put them right, and no doubt traumatise them in the process!
An excellent essay….and boy thank God there are still Russians around to make fools of our idiots….admittedly not that hard.
The very basis of science, is that there are no known truths/facts, all must constantly be under review, so to say to children that the Globes temperature, is controlled by human activity, is a non arguable fact, directly contradicts all previous scientific understanding …..that alone should make many hesitate, that it doesn’t goes a long way to confirm Nut Zero is a cult, not a discipline. …..and then when one checks out Nut Zero’s most eager proponents..letting them anywhere near unformed minds, is truly a crime.
‘The only truly “cutting-edge” thing about the whole scheme will be making toddlers and teens want to slit their wrists in sheer climate-despair. So green-at-the-gills will Britain’s children inevitably become that the OCR warns a comprehensive programme of “eco-therapy” will later be needed in order to prevent them all succumbing to depression…’ This is a very real point. On the one hand the BBC correctly tells us: ‘Catastrophising: How toxic thinking leads you down dark paths‘ “Abundant research shows catastrophising can pose a serious threat to mental health, and may also amplify feelings of distress accompanying conditions such as chronic pain.” https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20220725-catastrophising-how-toxic-thinking-can-lead-down-dark-path This is well-known in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, which aims to replace catastrophising thinking with more realistic thinking, and has been proven to be a very effective treatment for many people who suffer depression, anxiety and other mental health conditions, which catastrophising can cause or exacerbate. Yet simultaneously BBC News relentlessly tries to fill everyone, especially young people, full of fear and doom about an impending climate catastrophe. Some susceptible young people take these BBC reports very seriously and it can very seriously damage their mental health, and lead them down a road of taking antidepressants, from which they… Read more »
Thanks for a list. No end to the Jeremiads is there?
Yet when I grew up it was GlobaloneyCooling and the next Ice Age – taught in almost every class in North America.
40 years later, somehow it is now GlobaloneyBoiling – from the same causal agent that dastardly trace chemical necessary for life, 95% emitted by Gaia which greens the planet – plant food.
This has to be good news for child psychologists, though.
It becomes clearer by the day that TPTB need this bogus climate Armageddon story to be taken in hook line and sinker as the big lie in order to justify the horrors they plan to inflict on us. Basically they have invented a war, an everlasting war and they need to convince us that the war is real and terrible so that we will accept the immiseration and misery that they will be inflicting on us. Don’t complain that you no longer have a car, your granny has just died of hypothermia, you have to exist on bug burghers and oat milk and you only get electric for 3 hours a day………………. don’t you know there’s a climate war on?
It is particularly noxious because children have a natural delight in the natural world and the learning about animals. It means that this propaganda attacks a weak spot at a formative age thereby inflicting a sense of trauma that might linger until adulthood and preclude any rational and humane consideration. And of course they know this. That is why they chose Greta as a mascot. A confused autistic angry child as if this represents complete illumination. If you look into her past her mother was a Eurovision contestant who loved the limelight and didn’t spend as much time at home with Greta as Greta would’ve liked.
The education of our children has been so poor these last 25 years, that they won’t pay attention anyway.
https://x.com/wideawake_media/status/1867529944227516822?s=48
He’s spot on. I wish we had a senior politician who talked like this.
The public are trundling along in life oblivious (or most of them are) to this transformation away from capitalism into communism and if ask 10 of your friends and family they will likely all tell you that “oh the weather is definitely changing”. Even when you try to have a quiet word and maybe point out that weather changes all of the time, on all time scales, Polar bear numbers have gone up 5-fold, storms, floods, and droughts are not getting any more frequent or extreme, they still cling to the idea that has been entrenched in their brains that everything is getting worse, because they heat politicians say that, they see it on the BBC and SKY and other leftist media, and they will think that turbines, solar panels, smart meters and the highest electricity in world will somehow fix all of that. The one thing they will all probably not know or realise is where this all emanates from —–THE UNIED NATIONS and its INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE. —-People don’t believe a single word that comes out of the mouths of politicians on virtually ever other issue , but somehow they believe this political body on climate.… Read more »