I don't think it will come as any surprise to Tildes' readers that there are concerted propaganda efforts to avoid meaningful action on fossil fuels, and manufacture doubt that anything should be...
Beverly Grimmett thought the kids magazines she saw stacked on a coworker’s desk this spring were perfectly innocent, until she picked one up.
“My stomach turned,” Grimmett said.
The guides were decorated in bright colors and cheerful cartoons, with titles like “The Kids Guide to Socialism,” “The Kids Guide to Our One Nation Under God,” and, finally, “The Kids Guide to the Truth About Climate Change.”
Grimmett, who works in construction project management at a six-person office in Norfolk, Virginia, had happened upon one of former Gov. Mike Huckabee’s educational ventures—a series called The Kids Guide from Ever Bright Media, the children’s publishing company he founded. The company launched its children’s guide to climate change this spring, and has spent thousands of dollars on TV and social media advertising that prominently features Huckabee himself. The guide argues that the climate crisis is not as dire as mainstream media would have you believe, but it does not list its authors or what their credentials might be. And though its title claims to present the “truth,” science educators and climate researchers have found the guide to be full of factual inaccuracies.
I don't think it will come as any surprise to Tildes' readers that there are concerted propaganda efforts to avoid meaningful action on fossil fuels, and manufacture doubt that anything should be done.
But infiltrating children's educational materials is a particularly insidious tactic, conflating appeals to godliness, independent thought, progress, the American Way, and other ideological shibboleths.
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If you ever think that progress is inevitable, don’t forget that there are greedy billionaires and religious extremists who tirelessly play the long game to push everyone backward.
If you ever think that progress is inevitable, don’t forget that there are greedy billionaires and religious extremists who tirelessly play the long game to push everyone backward.
I don't think it will come as any surprise to Tildes' readers that there are concerted propaganda efforts to avoid meaningful action on fossil fuels, and manufacture doubt that anything should be done.
But infiltrating children's educational materials is a particularly insidious tactic, conflating appeals to godliness, independent thought, progress, the American Way, and other ideological shibboleths.
Linked from The Bulletin website to avoid the "Inside Climate" e-mail harvesting prompt.
If you ever think that progress is inevitable, don’t forget that there are greedy billionaires and religious extremists who tirelessly play the long game to push everyone backward.
See also: Florida Approved a PragerU Climate Cartoon for Schools. We Asked a Scientist to Fact-Check It.
That video is just thinly-veiled propaganda. It's sad that Florida approved such things for use in classrooms.