Gore Movie Sent to Every British Secondary School
The idiot British Government 'Department For Environment Food and Rural Affairs' (Defra) has sent out a 'Climate Change Study Pack' to every secondary School across the UK. It includes:
A resource pack to help teachers and pupils explore and understand the issues surrounding climate change was sent to every secondary school in England today.
The pack, which includes the Al Gore film An Inconvenient Truth and a number of other resources, was developed by Defra and the Department for Education and Skills. It is accompanied by online teaching guidance showing how to use the resources in the pack in science, geography and citizenship lessons.
Schools Minister Jim Knight said:
"Climate change is one of the most important challenges facing our planet today. This pack will help to give young people information and inspiration to understand and debate the issues around climate change, and how they as individuals and members of a community should respond to it."
Climate Change and Environment Minister Ian Pearson said:
"There is a clear scientific consensus on the causes and impacts of climate change. Climate change is not solely an environmental issue - it is a challenge for the economy, for health, and for our way of life now, and in the decades ahead.
"The commitment and enthusiasm of young people will be essential to meeting this challenge. We must ensure that they have the tools and the information they need to make informed decisions about their lives and their communities, which this pack for secondary schools will help to provide."
Defra clearly believes that media hype plus science-predictions or science-faith equals science-fact. It doesn't, of course, it equals science-fiction. Hence Gore's film. But clearly Defra's ministers are absolutely determined that every secondary school pupil in Britain has, on the is issue, the right to remain as clueless as they are. Fair enough?
With thanks to Paul Flett for the tip.
Peter C Glover
in EnvironMENTALism, News, Government & politics
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