Every social movement, no matter how ridiculous, tries to expand. Movements like climate alarmism seek converts with religious fervor, and they do now shy away from indoctrinating other people's kids. Socialism is another such pernicious item; although there are plenty of adherents to socialism that are more than willing to spread their ideology at gunpoint, requiring people to commit a sort of latter-day auto-da-fé to show their obescience.
These days much of this indoctrination is done at our schools and universities. Case in point: Australia's Melbourne University, sometimes known as the Parkville Asylum, has a "Disasters, Climate and Adversity Unit" that has now released a document on precisely how this indoctrination is carried out.
And, yes, it's more than a little unsettling.
To condition kids as green rather than red thinkers, the Parkville authors have created a roadmap in the form of an online climate quiz. It’s illustrated with green and pink climate-fighting hobgoblins with light-bulbs sprouting from their heads.
I wouldn’t mind being a Climate Superpower so I took the quiz in my “young person” persona, while chewing my pencil and side-glancing at cat videos on TikTok. Each question has a set of multiple choices– none are “wrong”, I must just prioritise them. A sample:
How would you prefer to learn about climate change and climate action?
By listening to young leaders like Greta Thunberg and speakers at the Schools Strikes 4 Climate.
By listening to economists who talk about fair transitions to clean energy.
By hearing from scientists and other experts on climate change and climate justice.
Now, wait just one doggone moment here. This is Melbourne University - rated the best in Australia and 39th best in the world, apparently, by someone. And they are pushing the Doom Pixie Greta Thunberg as some kind of expert on the massive, chaotic, 4.55 billion-year-old system that is the Earth's climate?
Seriously?
But here's where the chilling part comes in:
The tute grew chaotic when a very mature-aged student, calling himself “an honorary eco-anthropologist”, demanded the audience grapple with capitalism. He asked, “Should we tweak it or transcend it with a finer system dedicated to social justice, democracy and a safe climate?”
Instead of telling him to put a sock in it, the presenters nodded that capitalism was indeed the “elephant in the room” and with a questioner, considered whether to “dismantle” the metaphorical pachyderm or even “eat” it. (1.00.0) In their intellectual repartee, it emerged that the Melbourne University Fossil Free Club has withered and died because of competition from the Palestine and gender-diversity ferals, who have made the climate emergency look dated (52.00).
We can safely translate "honorary eco-anthropologist" from woke-speak to English as "poorly informed, self-important loudmouth." They say an empty vessel makes the most noise, and we suspect this "honorary eco-anthropologist" sounds like 10,000 dirty Extinction Rebellion hippies pounding with wooden clubs on the sides of an empty oil tanker. But that's not the worrisome part; the troubling thing about this is the ready acceptance that, oh, it's capitalism - as in, liberty - that's the problem, and if the climate scold commies need to force people to comply, they sure seem willing to do so.
And they are taking this show to the big stage in Melbourne.
The university’s Climate Superpowers project is to be rolled into classrooms in 2025, along with extra resources for “Teacher Mental Health and Wellbeing”. This add-on will help teachers, perhaps fretting over their own household power bills, to convince kids about “clean energy getting cheaper every year”. Project leaders Phoebe Quinn and Dr Katitza Marinkovic Chavez were gathering input from teachers about their mental coping last September quarter.
Hint: Clean energy isn't getting cheaper every year. This is false. Of course, the scolds could have clean energy - nuclear energy - and Australia is the fourth largest producer of uranium in the world. But the scolds don't want that. No, it's the control they want.
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It's easy to look at this and think, "Well, this is Australia." But there can be no mistake about it - these same watermelons (green on the outside, red on the inside) are pushing this same agenda here in the United States.
If you have kids in school, pay attention to what they are being taught. We counter bad information with good information; fortunately, we have good information. Our side of the story is complex, of course, just as the earth's climate is complex - complex, chaotic, and unpredictable.
