I have mixed emotions on the whole “global warming” deal. It’s rather controversial. If I say that I don’t think man’s pollutants are causing the Earth to heat up, then it sounds like I think we can pollute away willy nilly and cut down trees and on and on and I’m fine with that.
I AM NOT.
However… this planet may be warming up, but guess what? So are all the other planets (and Sun!) in this Solar System of ours. There are some major changes going on and I don’t think there are any cars or corporations on Mars messing up their atmosphere.
So, while I believe we as a human race, need to stop and take care of this rock we call home, I think we also need to be aware that we are (and always will be) going through cycles. This one is longer than our lifetimes, obviously. There have been “global warmings” before, when there wasn’t one single car or factory in existence. And those warmings were followed shortly by an Ice Age.
Are our egos that big that we think we can stop an Ice Age??? We definitely can improve the conditions we’re living in and not accellerate our demise by clearcutting rainforests, rich in so many medicinal plants that we haven’t even touched the surface of finding. And we should.
Now that we have my views out of the way, let’s get to some startling facts:
The producers of An Inconvenient Truth offered the NSTA (National Science Teachers Association) 50,000 FREE DVDs.
Do you know what the organization said?
“Thanks, but no thanks.”
Why might they do such a thing, you might ask. Well, in an email to the producers, the NSTA expressed concern that other special interest groups would want their material distributed too.
Hmmm, sounds reasonable…. I suppose.
They also didn’t want to offer “political” endorsement of the film.
Political? Huh? Last I checked pollution was a science issue, not a political one.
But here’s the kicker. They wrote that by accepting the DVDs, it would place “unnecessary risk upon the (NSTA) capital campaign, especially certain targeted supporters.”
Targeted supporters? Guess who is a major sponsor of your children’s science teachers?
That’s right boys and girls, its the Exxon Mobile Corporation.
The teachers are given free material, free posters, free lesson plans. etc. etc.
So, the children of this country are being spoon-fed propoganda from not just the media, but in the sacred grounds of their education. And yet they cannot be allowed to view a video of what is happening to this planet.
Exxon Mobile aren’t the only ones either. Weyerhaeuser gives funding so they can give free materials on forestry, but conveniently leaving out the problems of clear-cutting. Montsano (don’t get me started on this company… well maybe I’ll blog another day on them and corn) gives funding so that they can espouse the benefits of genetic engineering.
And so it goes. Your children’s school may or may not have lunch available from Pizza Hut. They may or may not be sponsored by Coca-Cola or Pepsi. These are just the visual reminders of how and where the money flows in this country. What we really need to be worried about are the NON-visual reminders.
Who is really teaching our kids?
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