They should start in our public schools.
There’s a new bogeyman lurking in the closet, and this one isn’t imaginary. Us. One out of three children aged 6 to 11 fears that Ma Earth won’t exist when they grow up, while more than half—56 percent—worry that the planet will be a blasted heath (or at least a very unpleasant place to live), according to a new survey.
Commissioned by Habitat Heroes and conducted by Opinion Research, the telephone survey polled a national sample of 500 American preteens—250 males and 250 females.
On a sliding scale of anxieties, minority kids have it worst; 75 percent of black children and 65 percent of Hispanic children believe that the planet will be irrevocably damaged by the time they reach adulthood.
There is no evidence that any of this will happen within the lifetimes of the children of these children. And there is no reason that any of them should believe any of the above scenarios.
So it can only be concluded that the children are being lied to or they aren’t listening. What with the way the rest of the education testing scores look, I’d call it for the former.
Found via RTftLC
And how many were afraid that it would be turned into a socialist craphole, something I’d say has a much greater likelihood of happening?