A lone polar bear sits on a shifting piece of ice in the Arctic Ocean. New York City’s Times Square is underwater. Plants wither in searing heat in the middle of winter.
These are the images our children see in school and on social media as part of the Left’s effort to brainwash impressionable minds into thinking the Earth is in its final days. Kids are bombarded with climate propaganda in school, on social media, and in movies and television.
Bill Nye the Science Guy doesn’t have any more science credibility than Al Gore or John Kerry, but Nye became a hero to 1990s kids who bought into the lies. The same went for Captain Planet.
Back in 2006, former vice president and self-appointed global warming prophet Al Gore warned that we had only 10 years to save the planet. At the time, Rush Limbaugh kept an Armageddon clock running to see if Gore’s prediction would come true.
It didn’t. In fact, not only are the caps not melting, but ice coverage in Antarctica is actually growing. The New York Post reports, “Notably, four major glacier basins in the WL-QML region — Totten, Moscow University, Denman and Vincennes Bay — had been losing the most mass, with ice discharge and surface melting responsible for much of the loss. But between 2021 and 2023, those glaciers experienced significant mass gain, reversing the accelerated loss they had undergone.”
Of course, the climate cult won’t ever admit they’re wrong. Any evidence of cooling temperatures or expansion of sea ice is dismissed as yet more evidence of global warming. Claiming that cooling is actually warming is just another way for cultural Marxists to muddy the waters and hide the truth behind their agenda.
“Climate education advocates say they’re just teaching ‘facts’ everyone agrees on. Don’t buy it,” Betsy McCaughey wrote back in 2023. “A poll by Fairleigh Dickinson University of 400 geologists, climatologists, meteorologists and other scientists found that 41% do not believe global warming will cause ‘significant harm’ during our lifetimes. A majority of scientists also disagree with the claim kids hear from teachers that we’re facing a significant increase in severe weather like hurricanes and tornadoes.”
That hasn’t stopped climate propagandists from doubling down. They keep moving the goalposts, but the message is the same: The only way to save Earth is to abandon capitalism, free enterprise, and fossil fuels. Ultimately, the goal is to turn our kids into climate activists who will one day funnel their fury into public policy when they become the leaders of tomorrow.
To make sure the buy-in works for our youngest citizens, you can’t rely on kids’ entertainment like Bill Nye or Captain Planet. That’s where Greta Thunberg came in.
Like many other young people going to school and learning about science, Thunberg became “attuned to the climate crisis, with the pivotal moment coming during a film shown in class about rubbish in the oceans, ‘an island of plastic’ in the south Pacific,” The Guardian reported in 2020. “But after the lesson, while Thunberg was gripped with concern, other pupils enthused about a teacher’s trip to New York and flights to Thailand and Vietnam.”
What we didn’t know at the time, but what we appreciate today in the world of social media and the internet, is that repetitively immersing undeveloped minds with gloom and doom images and information takes a toll on their emotional and psychological health.
“In the summer of 2018,” The Guardian added, “Thunberg began her first school strike, taking a homemade placard to stand outside the Swedish prime minister’s office. When she was joined by other activists, her father tried to persuade her to go home, aware of the emotional toll it was taking on her. But she refused and the time with other people had an unexpected effect on her.”
What Thunberg experienced and has become commonplace among our youth is called climate anxiety. It sounds as made-up as global warming or climate change or whatever they’re calling it these days.
But it’s no laughing matter. Some in the Gen Z or Millennial generations are quitting their jobs over climate concerns. Even more troubling, some parents have decided against having children to avoid bringing them into what they believe is a dying world.
Of course, we want our children to care about the planet and its environment, but we’re harming them by fearmongering at a time when they don’t have the emotional or mental capacities to process and understand what they’re being told.
As Alysha Tagert writes at The Daily Wire, “The answer is to stop scaring people. Fear is rarely motivating. People have to feel as if they can make a change or a difference. Fear tactics only encourage feelings of helplessness and overwhelm, leading to avoidance and disconnection.”
Tagert adds, “Adults must learn how to navigate these issues for their own improved mental health, as well as for effective parenting and education of the next generation. Teaching children about climate change has too often strayed from providing necessary information to dumping unfiltered fears on impressionable kids.”
Any social or political movement that uses children doesn’t have any credibility. And when promoters of that movement are doing observable damage to our kids, it’s time to hold them accountable. Leave the kids alone and let the facts speak for themselves. Unfortunately for the climate cult, those facts don’t hold up in the light of day.
