…at least for a while. As of late, the truth has been catching up with the left far faster than they’d like.

But there are a few things that they’ve been able to lie about that is now taken as basic fact throughout our society. People won’t even question it. They’ll just agree with the prevailing narrative and move on.

One thing, in particular, is climate change. After decades of forcing climate alarmism on the people, the millennial generation is pretty ingrained with the idea that the planet is going to go into some kind of ecological disaster thanks to the irresponsibility of mankind.

And who can blame us? Since we were small children we were force-fed environmentalism from the schoolroom to the television. Captain Planet was on every day pushing eco-alarmist messaging, pamphlets were handed out about our impact on the environment by teachers, and I remember we even had special presentations put on by performers that focused on the climate change message.

Fast forward to much later and many in my generation just take the climate change message as a given, and not only that, they feel it’s very important. So important that it’s a part of how they decide who is and isn’t worthy of being a romantic choice.

According to The Hill, the dating website OkCupid found that millennials feel that environmental issues are very important when choosing a partner:

Over the past year, 250,000 individuals worldwide answered the question “Is it important that your match cares about the environment?” Ninety percent of the respondents said that it’s important for their match to care about the planet, while women were 7 percent more likely than men to care, according to the data.

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As for the question, “Are you concerned about climate change?”, 81 percent of daters expressed concern about climate change, with women 7 percent more likely than men to be concerned.

Millennials, who dominate OKCupid’s user base, were the generation most concerned about climate change, with 83 percent of these daters replying in the affirmative to this question, according to the data.

We can definitely knock off at least a little bit of that percentage since it’s likely that some of those people are just saying what they need to in order to get a date, but that’s still a pretty large percentage.

When you pull back and examine the entire debate, the extent of man’s effect on the climate is debatable, but we’ve not been allowed to have that debate, and wanting one makes you a societal pariah. That was so embedded in our minds from youth that many millennials today just automatically accept the climate alarmist’s narrative and even go so far as to defend them. They themselves may have little to no facts to back it up, but they know those facts are out there. They were told they were repeatedly.

(READ: Modern Day Druids: Democrats and the Church of Climate Change)

It’s proof positive that for every information campaign there should be a counter-effort to dispel it. We’ve never been more positioned to counter these narratives in our lives thanks to the internet. Kids get just as much direction from their computers as they do their teachers nowadays, and fewer and fewer are watching television.

Imagine what the world would be like tonight if we weren’t bogged down by climate alarmism. How many politicians wouldn’t have received additional funding off of manipulating people they fooled with years of programming? What kind of technologies would we have? Moreover, what kind of energy crises would we not be facing right now if it was never ingrained in people?

Protecting our children from leftist narratives needs to be a much larger focus, and the good news is we have the tools to do it.