Why do some liberals want to see their children scared by global warming?

Question

"In June, a fourth grade class from Portland Maine's East End Community School issued a dire climate report: "Global warming is a huge pending global disaster" read the elementary school kids' report according to an article in the Portland Press Herald on June 14, 2007. Remember, these are fourth graders issuing a dire global warming report. (LINK)

And this agenda of indoctrination and fear aimed at children is having an impact.

Nine year old Alyssa Luz-Ricca was quoted in the Washington Post on April 16, 2007 as saying:

"I worry about [global warming] because I don't want to die." (LINK)

The same article explained: "Psychologists say they're seeing an increasing number of young patients preoccupied by a climactic Armageddon." "

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Speeches&ContentRecord_id=dceb518c-802a-23ad-45bf-894a13435a08&Region_id=&Issue_id=

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/15/AR2007041501164_pf.html

Parents say they're searching for "productive" outlets for their 8-year-olds' obsessions with dying polar bears. Teachers say enrollment in high school and college environmental studies classes is doubling year after year. And psychologists say they're seeing an increasing number of young patients preoccupied by a climactic Armageddon.

I never have and never will try to scare my grandchildren with terrorists stories.

So, does anyone have proof that schools are trying to scare children about terrorists?

Read the article on this link and follow the links it gives --- then give me proof it is not true.

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Speeches&ContentRecord_id=dceb518c-802a-23ad-45bf-894a13435a08&Region_id=&Issue_id=

I double-dog dare anybody to disprove what this article says.

I think it's sick to scare kids this way.

Read this article, then tell how children can slow down global warming.

I agree that it shouldn't be a political thing but it is.

I wonder why people won't even try to read links before they answer. When one has to take a child to a psychologist, doesn't that suggest a problem.

It's impossible to answer questions when the people asking them don't even allow e-mail.

Answer 1

Liberals like to use their children as pawns in their ideological struggle against freedom-oriented American civilization. It doesn't matter at all to liberal parents that their kids actually get scared.

Answer 2

This global warming crap is getting so old. The scientific community is divided on this issue. I don't deny our environment could use some work (pollution etc) but I do not believe it is the big emergency that Al Gore wants us to believe. If it is, why is Gore able to buy "carbon offsets" so he can use all of the electricity that he wants. It's another money making scam. How can paying offsets save the planet? Someone is planning on hitting pay dirt with this. By the way I have some great carbon offset deals, anyone interested?

Answer 3

I was younger that that when the television war was streaming into our loungeroom.. of course I mean Vietnam.
I have poems that I wrote as an eight year old... pretty bloody and graphic.....but balanced ...

I also grew up with the possibility of a nuke war between the USA and Russia,,, a little knowledge is dangerous .. so let them have access to MORE

I don't believe keeping the kids in the dark and feeing them cow-poop is the way to go .. particularily THESE days ... they see they hear they can read .. hell they can surf the net... ( even at young ages ) ,,,

It's far far better to let them hear .. and then sit down with them and talk to them about it ... It's only something fearful IF you can't or won't discuss it with them...

I'm GLAD little Alyssa Luz-Ricca worries about Global warming ... She might encourage her parents to think about it too .. KIDS are MORE aware these days .. and they NEED to be in the world we live in ....
You can make them terrified or YOU can talk to them about it.
By not allowing them to be informed . .I reckon you'd be feeding the ignorance and ignorace creates fear.

Answer 4

This should not be a liberal or a conservative thing. In the end, whether global warming is for real or not, we need to better manage our natural resources. What is real is the drought we are having. What is real is how oil dependency has hurt our national security. Our nation needs to be energy/resource independent and protect our water supplies and the air we breath.

Answer 5

it's not an article it's a speech... and it doesn't even say who's making it?

but, he doesn't PROVE anything... he CITES STUDIES...

do you understand the difference?

his theories are theories... just like those of global warming...

I'm not a scientists, and if you aren't either, then odds are, you wouldn't have a clue what I am talking about, even if I did prove or disprove what he said

... but the VAST MAJORITY seem to think that guy isn't telling the truth OR his evidence DOESN'T disprove global warming...

look at it like this.. are you really good at anything?

if so, have you ever seen anyone make an assumption, based on what they can see and common sense, that's incorrect... and you know it's not correct, because you're good enough at the activity to know that even though it looks right, it's not?

like something may look like it proves something, when it really doesn't... and if you're not a scientist... then you wouldn't know...

Answer 6

Yeah, all human beings is familiar with what the little ones might desire to truly be fearful of is the turrists decrease than the mattress, appropriate? LOL, conservatives crack me up. Doom and gloom propaganda, appropriate. God forbid we'd desire to continually be in charge with the beautiful panorama our forefathers left to us, what a dismal concept. we'd desire to continually wreck it carelessly, so as that a pair shieks can get wealthy off the oil we burn. that's what George Washington could do.

Answer 7

So the fear of terrorists has been replaced by global warming? Do you understand that within 5 years, there will be a shortage of fresh water in 36 states? Did you know our lakes are drying up all over the country? Maybe its good that somebody is taking this seriously, because the adults really don't seem to be. I am hoping the local governments start reacting a bit better to prepare.

I remember when I was a child, nuclear war was the threat. Not that that's gone. We even had drills in school in case of nuclear attack. These kids will learn to cope with their fears just like we did.

Answer 8

I've wondered about this for awhile, since I've noticed that children's programming seems obsessive about the environment.

I try to counter-act the fear-mongerers with a sensible approach, where my own child is concerned. Same with terrorism. We limit our exposure to the news.

Isn't it interesting that the same people who think our children need to be afraid of "climactic Armageddon" think some of us are terrible for teaching our children Christianity.

Answer 9

Paranoia loves company. Some liberals enjoy conspiracies and anarchy. They want their kids to enjoy it too.

Answer 10

Because they had d**m well better be concerned. If global warming is not stopped, their lives are not going to be pleasant--if they survive the consequences.

This is not a political game. It is a real and growing threat to our civilization. I'm sorry if they find it frightening. That--however, is a matter the teacher needs to be prepared to deal with--some children will get scared. That's true of many things they need to learn--if some types of information--about disease, global warming, even things like the ancient asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs--that can be frightening if not presented properly.

Trying to censor bad news because it might frighten people is an an incredibly arrogant attitude--and is NEVER in the interests of the audience--though it may serve ulterior motives on the part o f the petty dictator who does the censoring.