I remember a time that even a teacher saying this to a student would be considered inappropriate activism about a controversial topic.
…Like right now?
From my perspective (millenial) raised in a conservative area, climate change discussion went from ‘kinda iffy in the past’ to approved to expected, then suddenly lurched to more taboo than I’ve ever seen.
I can’t even discuss it with my college-educated older relatives without them ranting about it. It’s a total taboo; they think I’m nuts for even bringing it up as an existential problem.
I can only imagine what parents would say if teachers said that now.
I’m sure it varies a lot from area to area, in the US especially, but having grown up in the olden times, there was in fact a time when the idea of climate change was about as fringe as flat-earth and aliens, and even talking about it like it’s a serious issue would get most people removed from their positions or laughed at by the population broadly.
There are a lot of teachers who now encourage and promote climate science. How much of that is actually heard and accepted? That’s a whole other issue as our education system is now eroding well below whatever standards we had or should have had.
In most of the developed world climate change is now being accepted broadly by even many conservatives, but the new argument is if the change is human-caused or if it’s even harmful (literally, there is a oft-recycled argument on the right that higher carbon levels will mean healthier plants and forests.)
There is a current narrative regression going on right now simply because of Trump and entirely because of Trump, giving people the validation and support to pretend climate change isn’t real, but it’s temporary. I’ve seen how leadership influences societies and how radically the figurehead of our country changes how people think and feel. It doesn’t matter what he says or makes other people think though, the world is broadly preparing the best we can anyway, with many coastal cities and the Navy creating plans for giant infrastructure projects.
…Like right now?
From my perspective (millenial) raised in a conservative area, climate change discussion went from ‘kinda iffy in the past’ to approved to expected, then suddenly lurched to more taboo than I’ve ever seen.
I can’t even discuss it with my college-educated older relatives without them ranting about it. It’s a total taboo; they think I’m nuts for even bringing it up as an existential problem.
I can only imagine what parents would say if teachers said that now.
I’m sure it varies a lot from area to area, in the US especially, but having grown up in the olden times, there was in fact a time when the idea of climate change was about as fringe as flat-earth and aliens, and even talking about it like it’s a serious issue would get most people removed from their positions or laughed at by the population broadly.
There are a lot of teachers who now encourage and promote climate science. How much of that is actually heard and accepted? That’s a whole other issue as our education system is now eroding well below whatever standards we had or should have had.
In most of the developed world climate change is now being accepted broadly by even many conservatives, but the new argument is if the change is human-caused or if it’s even harmful (literally, there is a oft-recycled argument on the right that higher carbon levels will mean healthier plants and forests.)
There is a current narrative regression going on right now simply because of Trump and entirely because of Trump, giving people the validation and support to pretend climate change isn’t real, but it’s temporary. I’ve seen how leadership influences societies and how radically the figurehead of our country changes how people think and feel. It doesn’t matter what he says or makes other people think though, the world is broadly preparing the best we can anyway, with many coastal cities and the Navy creating plans for giant infrastructure projects.