The education news outlet Chalkbeat recently highlighted a Denver, Colo. elementary school that’s teaching students as young as age 3 about environmental damage.
Mental-health professionals praise their efforts, saying the lessons can help prevent “eco-anxiety,” a “chronic fear of environmental doom.”
The mental-health industry’s logic is self-serving: Introduce kids to the idea of Earth’s demise, then step in to manage their worry.
Climate catastrophism has come to the classroom — and, as one educator put it, it’s “scaring the kids to death.”
Human beings aren’t born aware of our supposed environmental crisis.
The fear of climate change — and therapists’ capitalization on that fear — began with adults.
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Carolyn D. Gorman is a Paulson Policy Analyst at the Manhattan Institute. Adapted from City Journal.
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