Where information and educational systems are increasingly being used as tools for thought control, more and more people will be going through life ill-equipped to understand how much ecological peril humanity faces, or how deep a transformation will be required of us.
Stan Cox, along with and Paul Cox, is the author of How the World Breaks: Life in Catastrophe's Path, From the Caribbean to Siberia. Follow him on Twitter: @CoxStanlocal communities’ efforts to curb climate change. More prominent in the headlines, though, have been bills targeting public education and violating a host of constitutional rights, many of them now signed into law. These “culture war” laws don’t directly address climate.
Unfortunately, surging attempts to MAGAfy red-state education systems could lead future cohorts of young people to become less eager than the Montana 16 to challenge the fossil-fuel juggernaut. Anya Kamenetz recentlyon an especially egregious effort now underway: a campaign to completely purge the subject of climate change from public school curricula.
Among the objectors were groups with histories of opposition to abortion, interracial marriage, and the teaching of critical race theory . Now those groups had climate in their crosshairs as well. The effort to purge climate education from the classroom isn’t likely to succeed in New Jersey, but it continues to come under threat in red states.
These stories highlight two complications in the struggle to finally push national climate policy across the starting line. First, red-state governments across the country are hitting us with a hailstorm of laws and regulations to boost fossil fuels and suppress climate action. Second, right-wing politicians and lobbying groups are pushing for legislation that will tighten state governments’ control over education, the media, local governments, and other institutions.
Prominent among legislative measures that undermine climate action are so-called preemption bills, which prohibit certain actions by local governments. Until recently, such measures were narrowly targeted. For example, laws now on the books in
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