You nailed it, first out of the chute. This is the only way the global warming hoax is perpetrated, by spreading the ignorance. By defining the problem as ‘plausible’ in most people’s uneducated minds, the enviro-nuts can successfully fool more and more people — Mostly by scaremongering.

Instead of brainwashing students, the guberment screwl system should try educating them, in science, chemistry and mathematics.

Blackberries are red when green, who knew.

Educational and media ecosystems controlled by careless thinkers infect children with their carelessness. In the end, natural ecosystems become less important than the contrived ones.

Thanks for the post Peter

Hiking, Scout camps, sailing trips to Key West, trekking the high country of New Mexico– affordable, doable on a group basis which families simply cannot accomplish on their own. Scouting seems a matter of temperament (I never joined), but programs under devoted leaders could not be more positive. Kids learn leadership, responsibility, awareness of the Great World from an early age… scouting ensures that everyone will find a niche, kids literally are not allowed to fail. Not phony “self-esteem” but genuine performance inculcates respect for others, confidence in one’s own unique abilities.

Even in urban environments, nothing prevents field trips to shrines like Gettysburg and Valley Forge, hiking the White Mountains, overnighting on the battleships “Massachusetts” in Fall River, “New Jersey” in Philadelphia while visiting Independence Hall. Missing such activities in formative years, one will never appreciate American history, natural beauty, in such romantic ways. For kids fortunate enough to participate, get past “Scout food,” whole new dimensions beckon.

Raising Guitar Heroes in the basement? Pack ‘em up to Harriman State Park, tour West Point, visit historic Old Dutch estates up the Hudson River from New York. Kids won’t know the difference, if you don’t; but parents will sense a deep-seated grounding, quietude, once offspring find their ways. Be Prepared!

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed–and hence, clamorous to be led to safety–by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
–H.L. Mencken

The reason the vast majority of children don’t have more exposure to nature is because parents do not make the effort to expose them to nature early for whatever reason. It appears that those reasons are generally that the parents are tired and would rather do something else (shop, watch tv, or browse the internet), not that it is particularly difficult.

If someone can’t tell the difference between a bird and a flower, why on Earth should anyone trust their judgement? Especially when they’re lecturing us on how the whole world will be “destroyed” if we don’t yield to their totalitarian desires?