Did you ever change your furniture around to make the traffic flow better? Did you ever change a baby’s diaper and put on a clean one? Did you ever change clothes to be cooler, warmer, or more appropriately dressed for an occasion? Did you ever change a flat tire?
We’ve probably all done most, if not all of those things—and more. I think we’d agree that kind of change is usually good. Change in our lives is part and parcel of living.
On the other hand, we can move from one state to another, thinking the job
opportunities or weather will be better for us, but we eventually realize we should have visited the area first. There are a lot of unpleasant consequences to that move.
Sometimes change, like your skin transforming from that soft, unblemished covering on a baby to dry and wrinkled, is inevitable in the process of aging. We look at that change as simply unavoidable, predictable, certain.
Climate change fits into all those categories. There are beneficial, formidable, and inevitable sides to it. Our real problem is not only how to deal with the inevitability of climate change, but that our kids are being taught that it is bad for the earth, bad for civilization, bad for the future. And that’s just not true!
As your kids go back to school this fall, they will undoubtedly be drowned in the
horrors of climate change. President Biden has re-entered the United States into the United Nations Climate Change Paris Agreement. The UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, stated,
Climate change is happening now and to all of us. Every week brings a new example of climate-related devastation. No country or community is immune. . . . From increased poverty and food insecurity, to growing water stress and accelerated environmental damage, climate change is a clear and present threat. (Emphasis mine.)
Congressional Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) said climate change would “destroy the planet” in twelve years if we don’t do something about it.
Chapter 3 in my book Who’s Got Dibs on Your Kids? will open your eyes to many false claims being taught to students about climate change. I just read another that I would like to recommend to you and your children, depending on their comprehension level. It is Impacts of Climate Change: Perception and Reality by Indur M. Goklany. It’s published by The Global Warming Policy Foundation (Report 46), and you can buy it while it’s on sale for just $5.00 from The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation. Or you can download it free from the GWPF website.
I like this report because it is succinct and clear. In only 44 pages, it addresses:
- Extreme Weather Events
- Area Burned by Wildfires
- Disease
- Food and Hunger
- Sea-level Rise and Land Loss
- Human Wellbeing
- Poverty Rate
- Health-adjusted Life Expectancy
- Human Development Index
- Other Quality of Life Indicators
- Terrestrial Biological Productivity
It uses a lot of charts, some of which you saw in the video above, to make a visual impact of what is written.
Send your kids back to school with good, solid information they can use to enlighten their friends and their teacher about the truth of global warming/climate change.