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Why we can’t solve the climate crisis without schools — and teachers
The Los Angeles Times ^ | March 2, 2023 | By Sammy Roth

Posted on 03/03/2023 5:08:25 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

When wildfire smoke blocked the sun and turned the sky orange above the San Francisco Bay Area in September 2020, Andra Yeghoian’s two young children, ages 3 and 5, were scared. And they had questions: What was going on? Was this normal?

Yeghoian did her best to explain and to comfort them.

“I can’t not talk about climate change with my kids,” she said. “It’s the same for teachers with their students.”

Yeghoian is one of the lead authors of a new report — released Thursday and shared exclusively with The Times — exploring how K-12 schools can educate students about climate change, while contributing to climate solutions themselves.

Building schools that run on renewable energy and provide shelter from heat and smoke, the report argues, will not only protect children — it can also support entire communities struggling to deal with climate change impacts and help prepare young people to thrive in a world that’s only getting hotter.

Bringing solar panels, heat pumps and electric buses to schools could help show students that their parents’ generation is serious about building a better world for them — while also giving students a climate learning laboratory, the report argues.

Teachers could use those clean energy systems to bring environmental lessons to life. They could also build classes around school air-quality monitors, plant-based meals served to students and on-campus gardens seeded with native trees and plants.

Is this vision for climate education likely to come to pass in our lifetimes, let alone the next 10 or 15 years?

It would certainly require a paradigm shift. But then again, so will sustaining a habitable planet. I choose to be optimistic.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; hoax; propaganda; socialism
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1 posted on 03/03/2023 5:08:25 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yep, need to brainwash the kids early so they can’t think for themselves - kind of like how schools are teaching kids that pedo-drag queens are something to be celebrated and are completely normal.


2 posted on 03/03/2023 5:11:16 AM PST by qwerty1234
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Groomer teachers that think there is a climate “crisis” should all be fired. Don’t let your children near groomer teachers.


3 posted on 03/03/2023 5:11:28 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Skip the teachers—just go for electric shock treatment and drugs to brainwash the children...

;-)


4 posted on 03/03/2023 5:11:56 AM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We need to keep children far, far away from pretenders with eddikashun degrees who wouldn’t come even close to understanding real science. Name a “climate” prediction that’s come true. Just one.


5 posted on 03/03/2023 5:15:48 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So what are her 3-and-5-year olds - now six and eight - supposed to do to fight climate change?! Effing laughable....


6 posted on 03/03/2023 5:20:32 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man.)
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Teachers could use those clean energy systems to bring environmental lessons to life. They could also build classes around school air-quality monitors, plant-based meals served to students and on-campus gardens seeded with native trees and plants.

How are they going to do all that and still teach woke-ism and CRT?!

7 posted on 03/03/2023 5:21:40 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Let’s be honest. No one wants to “solve the climate crisis.” Half of us don’t believe it exists. The other half desperately needs its continued existence to perpetuate their political power.


8 posted on 03/03/2023 5:26:29 AM PST by BuchananBrigadeTrumpFan (If in doubt, it's probably sarcasm)
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To: Rummyfan

Actually not laughable, this is very dangerous.


9 posted on 03/03/2023 5:30:28 AM PST by Machavelli (True God)
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LA Times so.................


10 posted on 03/03/2023 5:32:10 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

To get a doctrine nation, you need indoctrination.


11 posted on 03/03/2023 5:34:46 AM PST by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Academia is always a necessary component of forced indoctrination.


12 posted on 03/03/2023 5:34:49 AM PST by MrRelevant
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There is no “climate crisis” so there is nothing to solve.


13 posted on 03/03/2023 5:34:57 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We put stupid ideas into the heads of children then we must back up the stupid with stupid actions. Where the feck are the ADULTS?


14 posted on 03/03/2023 5:43:22 AM PST by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Strange how they make it sound like a religion. I’m sure Jim Jones said similar things about schools and teachers.


15 posted on 03/03/2023 5:49:21 AM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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Why we can’t solve the climate crisis without schools — and teachers

How do you solve a problem that you can't demonstrate with hard data and real science. actually exists??
16 posted on 03/03/2023 5:50:34 AM PST by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

File under “Wasting extra fossil fuel to solve a problem that doesn’t exist.”


17 posted on 03/03/2023 5:55:21 AM PST by nagant
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I think what she is trying to say is that the Green Weenie Bowel Movement needs more money taken from American workers’ paychecks.


18 posted on 03/03/2023 5:58:35 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer ("I may be a white boy but I'm not stupid". - FJB at Black "History" event. Tell 'em Jo Jo!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

FOAD Times.


19 posted on 03/03/2023 6:07:50 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

In other words, indoctrinate the little retards with more of this “climate change” bullcrap.


20 posted on 03/03/2023 6:31:59 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Disband and Defund the putrid FBI. America does not need an out of control Gestapo)
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