OECD pushes to recruit 15-year-old climate activists – is this exciting?

Article by Eric Worrell

h/t Dr. Willie Soon; “…take action to combat climate anxiety and ‘establish your place and role in a global world’…”

How to teach climate change so 15-year-olds can take action

The OECD's PISA project will measure students' ability to take action against climate anxiety and “position and function in a global world”

“The weather is going to get very hot, Everything will catch fire and sea levels will rise,” said 11th grader Josh Dorian. “It's like the worst of the worst case scenarios. How do you deal with it?

“Well, you fix it, you stop it from happening, you take precautions,” said Josh, who is studying VCE Environmental Science at Mount Lilydale Mercy College in Melbourne's outer east. “It's scary to get kids involved, but I think it's necessary.“

By 2025, science will be a major focus for the first time in nearly a decade OECD’s Program for International Student Assessment (Pisa) – Held every three years (due to COVID-19), its focus rotates between reading, mathematics and science.

This year it will measure the knowledge and abilities of 15-year-old students from 92 countries and economies to address climate change, under new titles: Agency in the Anthropocene.

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It’s about understanding their role in the ecosystem. “Not as the pinnacle of the top, but as a participant with all the other players in the ecosystem. They are part of the system, which means they must behave responsibly within the system.

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Learn more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/24/how-to-teach-climate-change-so-15-year-olds-can-act

The climate movement is dying and you can smell the desperation. The past two major climate conferences were hosted by oil sheikhs and oil tyrants who consider fossil fuels “a gift from God”. But even a dying snake can deliver a deadly attack. The climate movement is still doing a lot of harm on the way down.

When the climate movement is finally swept into the dustbin of history, our society teaches millions of frightened children that they have a duty to save the world, a period that will rank high on the list of evils committed by the Greens and their political enablers .

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