An Australian man has pulled his son out of a local school which upset pupils by teaching alarmist climate change theory as a scientific fact.
Matthew Karlos said that he decided to remove his 10-year-old son Max from the school when teachers asked the schoolchildren to “dress up as hippies, and sing this song, Big Yellow Taxi.”
A climate change skeptic, Karlos told local media it is “ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous” to be scaring kids with stories of the end of the world.
“It’s just brainwashing the younger generations.”
Like many, Karlos has been critical of the Greta Thunberg phenomenon and treating her as some sort of anointed climate prophet.
“The fact that you’ve got supposed adults… pushing ideas on a 16-year-old girl and using her as a pawn, is just disgusting; it’s child abuse,” he said.
“Just stop brainwashing the kids and being negative and teach them how to be positive about making good positive changes for the world, not all doom and gloom,” he added.
Matthew had already kept Max at home for a day some weeks earlier when pupils were asked to give a speech on global warming.
“It was to do with mankind induced climate change and all this business they carry on about now,” he said.
Young Max said that the atmosphere at school was deteriorating.
“They shouldn’t be teaching kids that, and yeah we shouldn’t toss away our rubbish,” Max said, “but we shouldn’t be worrying about the end of the world.”
Then one day teachers announced that the last day of the term would be a “Greenie day” at school, which would involve, among other things, dressing up and singing to the environmental song Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell.
“All the other kids, ‘cause we were all in the one class at the time, they were all going, ‘yay we can dress up as hippies,’ and I just said, ‘what’s so good about it? There’s nothing good about them,’” Max said.
“They just sit around doing nothing all day,” he added.
At that point, Matthew decided he had had enough and decided to pull Max out of the school.
“You’ve gotta teach kids to be happy and positive and it’s all well and good to be concerned about the environment and wanting to teach kids good practices and basically not be grubs and throw litter around and this sort of thing, but you don’t have to be a greenie to do that,” he said.
In response, a spokesperson for the New South Wales Department of Education issued a statement saying “studying controversial issues is acceptable for educational purposes.”
Last month, psychologists in Great Britain warned that a growing number of children are being treated for an overwhelming terror of environmental doom, a condition that’s referred to as “eco-anxiety.”
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“Protests by groups such as Extinction Rebellion, the recent fires in the Amazon and apocalyptic warnings by the teenage activist Greta Thunberg have prompted a ‘tsunami’ of young people seeking help,” the Telegraph newspaper reported.
“A lot of parents are coming into therapy asking for help with the children and it has escalated a lot this summer,” said psychotherapist Caroline Hickman of the Climate Psychology Alliance (CPA).
“The symptoms are the same [as clinical anxiety], the feelings are the same, but the cause is different,” she said. “The fear is of environmental doom — that we’re all going to die.”
The Climate Psychology Alliance said psychiatric drugs have been administered to some children complaining of fear of environmental collapse and the group is now pushing for official recognition of eco-anxiety as a psychological condition.
As activists attempt to enlist more young people as eco-warriors, it is no surprise that children are suffering psychologically as a result, since they do not possess the critical thinking skills necessary to separate the facts from the hype.
When they hear that the world is ending or that human civilization has only ten years to exist, their natural inclination is to believe it.
Ms. Hickman said that parents should learn to use gentler language in talking to their children about global warming.
“What you don’t want is that child to collapse in a well of depression saying ‘what’s the point in going to university,’ or ‘what’s the point of doing my exams,’ which I have heard children say,” Hickman said.
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Liberals don’t approve of kids playing games like Cowboys and Indians,Cops and Robbers but they do approve of kids walking out of class to take part in Global Warming/Climate Change protests no wonder the schools are failing way too much Liberlism
It won’t be Greta who has had her childhood stolen but all these children living in fear of imminent extinction, especially those being treated with drugs to cope with an imaginary problem. Maybe in 10 to 12 years time there will be some interesting claims for damages from this group against the perpetrators.
They used Lies and Junk Science to ban DDT which was not causing Bird Eggshell to become thin there are other things that may cause a birds eggshells to become thin that has more to do with more natural causes like air tempeture and stress Rachael Carson lies and faked just about everything in her book Silent Spring
My kids went to a parent partnership school which has resulted in the students being very successful such as entering college early. One of the big reasons parents have gone to this school is the public schools have a program of indoctrinating students into accepting homosexuality as an alter form of normal.
In the case of the Aussie Father his son was in a school that was so extreme pulling his son out was the best (only) option. Most of the time it is probably better to leave the kids in the schools and counter the climate change lies. They are going to hear these lies anyway from the media or friends. Rather than not being exposed to the lie of increasing extreme weather events, they should hear the lie and then get the real data. The same is true of warming and the computer models, as well as the poor correlation of carbon dioxide concentrations and the Earth’s temperature history.
Another things that stands out in this article is the great deal of time being spent on the climate change fraud. This is displacing the time that should be used for real learning.
How to eliminate climate change? Show the numbers.
The hockey stick, the balloon temps, the excess of polar bears in Hudsons Bay…then maybe “climate change” will disappear. I sure hope it does because its wasting a lot of peoples time and money, money that should be going to childrens hospitals instead.
Most Deep Eclogists want Humans to go extinct because they think that if humans dissapeared the world would be a Paradise
The kids are going to be mad when they find out they have been lied to .
500 scientists write the UN IPCC stating “there is no climate emergency ” .
The lead scientist for the first 2 IPCC reports comes out in the past week to say
fears of climate change are overblown .
Well isn’t it refreshing some scientists are now finding the moral courage to
set the record straight . $ trillions wasted , a generation of kids brain washed
and terrorized by the scary global warming industry and teachers . Tens of thousands of fuel poverty deaths for what ? A pretend crisis to fatten wallets of insiders and finance the globalist agenda of the UN . That is exactly what has been done . Some scientists validated a con – job and were paid off to do it .
Here is a father more kids need to have someone who don’t want their kid to grow up to be Tree Hugger and Vegan and say prayers to Trees and Rivers.Big Yellow Taxi i cant stand that stupid Eco-Freak Song
Sounds like Young Max is a squared-away kid.
The Climate Cult have an answer to that final question.
“Don’t bother trying” “Fail”, “Don’t have babies”, “Kill your babies”, even “Eat your babies”.
You see where the term “cult” comes from?
Every age has its new fandangled faux-religion.