We made a mistake not teaching Ecology and specifically finite vs infinite resources. Not that there was a choice. Lobbyists made sure that Americans thought climate change was a hoax before most people had even heard the word. The craziest part was watching religious leaders convince a generation of farmers that “climate change” was political and not part of “ecology”. Something that farmers have been conscious of for thousands of years. We even have a more recent example in the “dust bowl” here in the US. For four years in the late eighties, my high-school actually had an ecology class.
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We are just now warming to climate change?
Frogs in a pot
We made a mistake not teaching Ecology and specifically finite vs infinite resources. Not that there was a choice. Lobbyists made sure that Americans thought climate change was a hoax before most people had even heard the word. The craziest part was watching religious leaders convince a generation of farmers that “climate change” was political and not part of “ecology”. Something that farmers have been conscious of for thousands of years. We even have a more recent example in the “dust bowl” here in the US. For four years in the late eighties, my high-school actually had an ecology class.