So they need to be taught it in all subjects? French lessons should include talking about global warming in French, for example. Sounds like indoctrination to me.
If you taught all the kids all the facts about climate change, you’ll have revolution within the decade.
On one hand, absolutely we should be telling children about global warming.
On the other… imagine if we actually gave them a clear picture of their futures.
The planet is destroyed, the plankton and insects are dying, the oceans are acidifying, inequality is growing, they will never own a home, the economic system is collapsing, there will be no pension fund, the welfare state and NHS are collapsing, and they may all develop an antibiotic resistence and start dying from simple injuries.
You may as well hang a sign up in schools saying “Abandon hope all ye who enter here”.
Children only sit through double maths because they’re **not** aware of how screwed they are.
Imagine if you started telling kids all the guff the climate doomers on here spout, rope and razor sales would be going through the roof.
Yeah, this is a mixed problem.
It’s all good to say “listen, we don’t want to show kids the true horrors that will be the consequences of what we’re doing to the planet because it’ll give them nightmares”, but kids need accurate, up-to-date information about what is happening, and what little is getting done about it.
I get a sense that part of it is also to keep kids in the dark, because it’s a lot easier to squeeze every last bit of profit out of some uninformed worker ants than it is an actively informed electorate.
We are absolutely thought about global warming and climate change in school. This does not only include geography and science lessons, but we even learn about climate change in subjects like French and RE. For the most part, our generation has become vastly apathetic towards the dangers of climate change. The future looks pretty bleak and rather than this sparking a need for change and action, it just makes us passive and nihilistic.
What are they gonna do? Are they really expected to tell them ” Your going fucking burn lmao”?
We were being taught about it when I was in school 20 years ago. All the semi-apocalyptic stuff that was supposed to have happened by now…hasn’t.
I was told at school that most of the UK would be under water by now. Until they change the models which have been proven to be ineffective then not much point in taking them seriously, bad science is just bad science.
Thats ok because our government are doing fuck all to prepare the country for it
Schools can’t teach kids everything for fuck sake. Everything seams to be dkw to schools. Upskirting, phones and sexting, mortgages, pensions, investments, climate change… And they still have to learn all the subjects as well. Schools can’t do everything
It needs to be done but there will be a lot of push-back from parents who think things will be OK or that the problems will not come about until the 2100s. Adults cannot accept that the climate is changing and won’t want their kids to be taught the very real possibilities facing them because it is not fun. Kids should know though, otherwise they will be in for a huge shock when they grow up and realise they were lied to and that adults did nothing to try and stop those possible futures from happening.
> “The education system should centre the climate crisis into every single subject,” suggests Scarlett, who has campaigned for change since she was 13. That would include vocational subjects, such as engineering.
*Every* subject? Centre? This would come at the expense of a hell of a lot of other stuff that “isn’t taught enough about in schools”
This is nonsense. As a current student, we learn about climate change from Geography to Science to Maths to French to PSHE and just about every subject there is. At times it feels like that it’s all we learn.
Of course, this has had a positive impact (notably learning how to combat climate change on a personal and wider scale) but I hope they don’t teach any more of it because quite frankly, while important, they teach it enough and it isn’t that interesting.
schools need to start teaching survival skills, but make them fun – foraging, permaculture, first aid, bivvy making … actually don’t the Scouts already do that kind of thing?
Got more important things to teach them like smashing the patriarchy and defying gender norms
How to prepare them for the collapse of civilization?
They should teach kids STEM subject and sports/nutrition and financial literacy only. The rest they can decide when they get older… are they going to do climate change GCSE and A Levels ??
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So they need to be taught it in all subjects? French lessons should include talking about global warming in French, for example. Sounds like indoctrination to me.
If you taught all the kids all the facts about climate change, you’ll have revolution within the decade.
On one hand, absolutely we should be telling children about global warming.
On the other… imagine if we actually gave them a clear picture of their futures.
The planet is destroyed, the plankton and insects are dying, the oceans are acidifying, inequality is growing, they will never own a home, the economic system is collapsing, there will be no pension fund, the welfare state and NHS are collapsing, and they may all develop an antibiotic resistence and start dying from simple injuries.
You may as well hang a sign up in schools saying “Abandon hope all ye who enter here”.
Children only sit through double maths because they’re **not** aware of how screwed they are.
Imagine if you started telling kids all the guff the climate doomers on here spout, rope and razor sales would be going through the roof.
Yeah, this is a mixed problem.
It’s all good to say “listen, we don’t want to show kids the true horrors that will be the consequences of what we’re doing to the planet because it’ll give them nightmares”, but kids need accurate, up-to-date information about what is happening, and what little is getting done about it.
I get a sense that part of it is also to keep kids in the dark, because it’s a lot easier to squeeze every last bit of profit out of some uninformed worker ants than it is an actively informed electorate.
We are absolutely thought about global warming and climate change in school. This does not only include geography and science lessons, but we even learn about climate change in subjects like French and RE. For the most part, our generation has become vastly apathetic towards the dangers of climate change. The future looks pretty bleak and rather than this sparking a need for change and action, it just makes us passive and nihilistic.
What are they gonna do? Are they really expected to tell them ” Your going fucking burn lmao”?
We were being taught about it when I was in school 20 years ago. All the semi-apocalyptic stuff that was supposed to have happened by now…hasn’t.
I was told at school that most of the UK would be under water by now. Until they change the models which have been proven to be ineffective then not much point in taking them seriously, bad science is just bad science.
Thats ok because our government are doing fuck all to prepare the country for it
Schools can’t teach kids everything for fuck sake. Everything seams to be dkw to schools. Upskirting, phones and sexting, mortgages, pensions, investments, climate change… And they still have to learn all the subjects as well. Schools can’t do everything
It needs to be done but there will be a lot of push-back from parents who think things will be OK or that the problems will not come about until the 2100s. Adults cannot accept that the climate is changing and won’t want their kids to be taught the very real possibilities facing them because it is not fun. Kids should know though, otherwise they will be in for a huge shock when they grow up and realise they were lied to and that adults did nothing to try and stop those possible futures from happening.
> “The education system should centre the climate crisis into every single subject,” suggests Scarlett, who has campaigned for change since she was 13. That would include vocational subjects, such as engineering.
*Every* subject? Centre? This would come at the expense of a hell of a lot of other stuff that “isn’t taught enough about in schools”
This is nonsense. As a current student, we learn about climate change from Geography to Science to Maths to French to PSHE and just about every subject there is. At times it feels like that it’s all we learn.
Of course, this has had a positive impact (notably learning how to combat climate change on a personal and wider scale) but I hope they don’t teach any more of it because quite frankly, while important, they teach it enough and it isn’t that interesting.
schools need to start teaching survival skills, but make them fun – foraging, permaculture, first aid, bivvy making … actually don’t the Scouts already do that kind of thing?
Got more important things to teach them like smashing the patriarchy and defying gender norms
How to prepare them for the collapse of civilization?
They should teach kids STEM subject and sports/nutrition and financial literacy only. The rest they can decide when they get older… are they going to do climate change GCSE and A Levels ??
Edit: spelling