{"id":283538,"date":"2023-10-16T13:29:38","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T11:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=283538"},"modified":"2023-10-16T13:29:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T11:29:54","slug":"primary-school-children-targeted-with-green-propaganda-by-just-stop-oil-millionaire-funder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=283538","title":{"rendered":"Primary School Children Targeted with Green Propaganda by Just Stop Oil Millionaire Funder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Indoctrination happens through many channels\u2014entertainment, speeches, and censorship\u2013\u2013but its main instrument is the school system. Teachers have a captive audience of malleable young minds for several years.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BY\u00a0CHRIS MORRISON<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just Stop Oil funder Dale Vince is pressing ahead with plans to flood British primary schools with environmental and Net Zero societal propaganda. Children aged 11 and under are being taught that they face an unprecedented global climate emergency, with the possibility that the planet is entering a sixth mass extinction. The solution of course is \u201csustainability\u201d and green energy, a matter that is dear to the heart of multi-millionaire Vince. His ageing onshore wind farm company Ecotricity has collected \u00a3110 million<\/a> in green taxpayer subsidies over the last 20 years, at a time when he has pocketed at least \u00a343 million in various corporate payments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ministry of Eco Education (MEE) was started by Vince in 2021 with the stated aim of \u201cgreening up the curriculum<\/a>\u201d. From an initial base of 15 \u2018pioneer\u2019 schools, it is working to scale this up to 1,000. MEE operates by inserting its messaging into all aspects of primary learning including transport, energy, food, nature and society. It aims to \u201csave teachers time\u201d, and it claims to have \u201crearranged the national curriculum\u201d around what it describes as big questions. MEE also claims to be working with secondary schools to adapt its primary approach to Key Stage 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although few lesson examples are available on the MEE website, it is easy to piece together some of the ideas being taught. A lesson on veganism<\/a> notes that industrial farming has negative impacts on the planet, but apparently \u201cisn\u2019t just about food\u201d. Most of the sources quoted are little more than promotions for veganism with a link to a Guardian<\/em> article explaining why vegans don\u2019t eat honey. There does not appear to be any discussion about the wisdom of removing<\/a> all types of animal protein from the diets of very young children, something that many scientists think should be done only under strict nutritional supervision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The education leader of MEE is Paul Turner and a video is supplied of him talking to a group of young children in the Ecotricity tent at the Womad festival. Bouncing around a giant globe, he explains that the correct level of carbon dioxide in the planet is the \u2018magic\u2019 number of 360 parts per million (ppm). Quite how he is able to point to such a precise \u2013 if magical \u2013 figure to stop the climate changing is not explained. There are many eminent scientists who think it is a little on the low side for animal and plant life to prosper. Certainly, the children are not told the dinosaurs lived in a world of plant plenty at a time when CO2<\/sub> levels were much higher. Turner, who is described by MEE as a \u201cradical geographer\u201d, tells the children that we need to \u201choover\u201d up all the gas, and on this front Dale is making a contribution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact the current level of CO2<\/sub> is around 420 ppm and recent increases are believed to have led to a dramatic 14% greening<\/a> of the planet. Hoover up all this extra CO2<\/sub> and veganism starts to seem an \u2018unsustainable\u2019 option. Remove nitrogen fertiliser from agriculture as many eco-extremists want and the consequent massive reduction<\/a> in crop yields starts to look like mass famine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But then it isn\u2019t just about the planet is it? In a paper published by MEE titled \u2018Foundations for an Eco Curriculum<\/a>\u2019, it is said that \u201cwe are increasingly recognising that any efforts to tackle climate and ecological emergency must also respond to the structural inequalities inherent in society\u201d. Furthermore, \u201cany eco school curriculum must explore ideas of social structures and processes as much as they do the natural environment, as well as exploring the intersection of ideas such as gender, race and inequality. From a young age, children are aware of injustice and can apply ideas of fairness and the environment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other words, children can be caught young and brainwashed with horrific, largely unsubstantiated tales of climate and ecological collapse \u2013 a process they have no intellectual ability to question \u2013 and be marched towards a collectivist society where ruling elites remove many personal freedoms and lifestyle choices. Oh, and energy can be provided by useless windmills requiring enormous public subsidies by enlightened philanthropists such as Mr. D. Vince.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Needless to say, MEE is not the only green educational propogandist operating in the U.K. As the Daily Sceptic<\/em> reported earlier this year<\/a>, other elite money is pouring into British schools. London-based Climate Science aims to supply free teaching materials, with children encouraged to plot implausible temperatures rises of 11\u00b0C, taught that alkaline oceans are \u2018acidic\u2019 and write letters to policymakers claiming \u201cour house is on fire\u201d in the style of Greta Thunberg. Among the billionaire backers are Schmidt Futures \u2013 the family foundation of former Google boss Eric Schmidt \u2013 and the Grantham Institute at Imperial, partly funded by green billionaire investor Jeremy Grantham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MEE is also involved with the Young Green Briton Challenge, which has also attracted the\u00a0ambassadorial support<\/a>\u00a0of TV activist Chris Packham. The\u00a0new scheme<\/a>\u00a0operates on a\u00a0Dragons\u2019s Den<\/em>\u00a0format with 16 schools competing to win a \u00a31,000 stake for a green project. Recently, Packham gave his backing to eco-protesters\u00a0breaking the law<\/a>\u00a0and suggested that a \u201cradical flank\u201d could attempt to blow up oil refineries. For his part, Vince has given hundreds of thousands of pounds to Just Stop Oil, a group that engages in civil disobedience and criminal damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What a fine example these men set for the youth of today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris Morrison is<\/em> the<\/em> Daily Sceptic\u2019s Environment Editor.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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