Climate crazies want to use schools to brainwash your kids with this radical agenda

Climate crazies are using schools to brainwash your children. It doesn't matter that too many kids can't read or write. They will be taught student climate action instead.

The reality is that these children are too young to comprehend the trade-offs of moving to zero carbon immediately. A first-grader doesn't know Mommy can't afford an electric vehicle — average price $53,000.  Betsy McCaughey is a former lieutenant governor of New York and chairman of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths. Follow her on Twitter @Betsy_McCaughey.

Climate change is the left's religion. The messaging is as heavy-handed as catechism in a religious school.  It's also scary. Children are being told that global warming is killing their favorite animals. At Slackwood Elementary School in New Jersey, first-graders are taught that transportation, heating and raising livestock are "making Earth feel unwell."  The reality is that these children are too young to comprehend the trade-offs of moving to zero carbon immediately. A first-grader doesn't know Mommy can't afford an electric vehicle — average price $53,000.  Children should be taught about the wonders of nature, learning to identify mammals, reptiles, fish and birds, oceans, plants and deserts. They are too young to address the ethical and economic implications of eliminating fossil fuels. 

First-graders don't understand the impact on their family's budget when the Con Ed bill doubles to pay for the shift to wind and solar, which New Yorkers are warned will happen here.   The U.S. has already reduced emissions of the six most common pollutants by 78% since 1970, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. But try explaining that to a first grader who doesn't know percentages and has no frame of reference for comparing the U.S. record with, say, the soaring pollution rates in China and India.   These issues are appropriate for high school students, and they should be presented as controversies — with all viewpoints included.  Climate education advocates say they're just teaching "facts" everyone agrees on. Don't buy it.