{"id":355235,"date":"2024-12-18T17:10:37","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T16:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=355235"},"modified":"2024-12-18T17:10:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T16:10:40","slug":"dale-vinces-ministry-of-eco-education-preaches-climate-crisis-to-seven-year-olds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=355235","title":{"rendered":"Dale Vince\u2019s Ministry of Eco Education Preaches Climate Crisis to Seven-Year-Olds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Chris Morrison<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We must not dwell too long on private misfortune nor ought we to speculate on Mr. Dale Vince\u2019s alleged lavish lifestyle<\/a> of fast cars, quaffing Dom Perignon, designer clothes, yachts and private jet travel. Mrs Vince is in a divorce court giving details of conspicuous consumption, with her ex suggesting he has been inspired by the \u201cconcept\u201d of lower consumption since the 1980s. Such is the disputatious way with these trying family battles, it is good manners to stay silent. Except perhaps to note that Mr. Vince has made his fortune from collecting over \u00a3110 million in taxpayer windmill subsidies<\/a> and has been making a bit of a virtue of late about everyone cutting down on consumption to save the planet. Nobody it seems is safe from his proselytising. While Vince runs his onshore wind farms, children as young as seven are being educated in the technology of the past by his foundation-funded Ministry of Eco Education (MEE)<\/a>. Fed a diet of climate and ecological catastrophe<\/a>, the children are also being encouraged to build their own model wind turbines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At this age, children probably don\u2019t understand what electricity is and a primer explaining the difference between an amp and a volt might be more useful. Or perhaps just learning to read and count properly. Times change, but probably not very much. When your correspondent was seven, the nuns at his Catholic primary school were very excited by something called the Second Vatican Council and scrapbooks were kept about something that in truth meant nothing to Dartford schoolchildren. I have it in mind that slightly older pupils were making models of St. Peter\u2019s Basilica in Rome. Get them young and you get them for life, as the Jesuits say. Meanwhile, any doubts about the existence of the Almighty would have been met with condign punishment similar in some ways to Vince\u2019s recent suggestion that \u201cclimate denial\u201d should be illegal.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether or not Vince has been glugging vintage shampoo and shopping at chic clothing emporiums, his Ministry of Eco Education is one of the finest moral fashion accessories money can buy. It recently said its ambition was to insert its curriculum into 1,000 schools with green messaging on transport, nature and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its stories seem designed to scare the living daylights out of anyone lacking the intellectual ability and wider education to question the climate Armageddon presented. All seven-year-olds in fact. They would not, for instance, be able to challenge the claim made by MEE that around the world \u201cdiversity is being annihilated at a terrifying rate\u201d. Population sizes of thousands of species of mammals, birds, fish and reptiles are claimed by MEE to have fallen by 60% since the 1970s. No source is provided for this imprecise claim, but variations of it are common in alarmist circles. Some of the evidence suggests otherwise. A bedrock scares repeated endlessly in the mainstream is that 69% of vertebrates across the planet have declined since 1970. The figures are provided by the World Wildlife Fund and the Zoological Society of London. However, a group of Canadian biologists recently revealed that the figure was a statistical freak. They pointed out that the estimate was driven by 2.4% of wildlife populations, adding: \u201cIf these extremely declining populations are excluded, the global trend\u00a0switches to an increase<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to a paper on MEE\u2019s website identifying the foundations of its eco curriculum, the Earth\u2019s environment is breaking down with warmer temperatures wreaking havoc causing an increase in \u2018extreme\u2019 weather and leading to a sixth mass extinction. It can of course be argued that slightly warmer temperatures bouncing back from a recent colder period have been almost entirely beneficial for life on Earth. Food supplies have risen, and famine is at bay in many parts of the world, carbon dioxide has significantly \u2018greened\u2019 the planet, mass extinction scares are the product of computer models, most \u2018extreme\u2019 weather events are not becoming more frequent or more severe and there is barely a scintilla of evidence to suggest humans have a hand in their frequency or ferocity. On this latter point, even the IPCC confirms,\u00a0at least for now<\/a>, this interpretation of the science. Presumably, such reassurance is not to be encouraged in the classroom \u2013 indeed it seems that according to Vince any \u2018denial\u2019 of climate science that is thought to be \u2018settled\u2019 should be against the law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While primary schools seem to be the main target of MEE, there are hopes to extend it to the secondary sector, while the material is also said to be suitable for home educators. A\u00a0recent MEE presentation<\/a>\u00a0highlighted the work of an MEE London-based home educator who was using MEE materials entitled \u2018The future of electricity\u2019. Those great unreliables wind and solar had pride of place but given that windmills first started operating in Britain in the reign of Henry II (1154-89), perhaps the materials should be called \u201cThe past of electricity\u2019. Children as young as seven are encouraged to build their own wind turbines using Lego and the blades should turn when placed near a fan. Children are keen on animals, so it is just as well they are not told that wind turbines around the globe kill\u00a0millions of bats<\/a>\u00a0every year. The giant turbines being planned to blanket Britain should make a good start on the next mass extinction. Blades almost as high as the London Shard will efficiently sweep the countryside of tonnes of wildlife from the smallest fry to the largest eagle. If the blades don\u2019t get the bigger birds, the vast number of new high-capacity electric cables and pylons probably will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What happens to the children\u2019s toy windmills when the fan are switched off would be a good question for them to ask, although it might get a similar response to innocents in a former age inquiring of Sister Agnes if God actually existed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day-to-day running of MEE seems to be in the charge of Paul Turner. who styles himself a \u201cRadical Geographer Paul<\/a>\u201d on his website. Among his noted activities is \u201cteaching climate breakdown\u201d along with providing material asking, \u201cwho owns England\u201d and \u201cshould land be returned to the masses\u201d. He claims to be inspired by the radical theatre collective called Three Acres and a Cow. The show\u2019s cast includes a Kohenet Hebrew Priestess and a \u201cradical queer Christian activist\u201d who these days spends most of his time \u201cgardening with asylum seekers\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turner\u2019s site also links to the Radical Geographers\u2019 Handbook<\/em><\/a>, which provides a definition of radical geography. It is said to recognise the need for a \u201creclamation of geography from its imperialist past, showing how geographical knowledge and thinking could play a key role in radical, social, political and environmental activism\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How school geography has come on from rocks, contours and map reading! Apparently, useful observational and practical skills are not nearly as interesting for some teachers as converting young children into parent-nagging activists. Let loose in schools, the radical geographer is charged to declare a climate and ecological emergency, sell his or her car and walk everywhere (not you Dale) and \u201cteach what you love and not to the exam\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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