OECD Pushes Recruiting 15yr Old Child Climate Activists – Watts Up With That?

Essay by Eric Worrall

h/t Dr. Willie Soon; “… take action in response to climate anxiety and ‘take their position and role in the global world’ …”

How to teach climate change so 15-year-olds can act

OECD’s Pisa program will measure the ability of students to take action in response to climate anxiety and ‘take their position and role in the global world’

“It’s going to get hot and everything’s going to be on fire and the oceans will rise,” says a year 11 student, Josh Dorian. “That’s just like the worst of the worst. How do you combat that?

“Well, you fix it, you stop it from happening, you take preventive measures,” says Josh, who is studying VCE environmental science at Mount Lilydale Mercy College, a high school in Melbourne’s outer east. “Involving kids in that is scary but I think it’s necessary.”

In 2025, for the first time in nearly a decade, science will be the major focus of the OECD’s program for international student assessment (Pisa) – which runs every three years (give or take Covid interruptions), its focus rotating between reading, maths and science.

This year it will measure the knowledge and ability of 15-year-old students from 92 countries and economies to act on climate change, under a new heading: Agency in the Anthropocene.

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It’s about understanding their role in the ecosystem. “Not as a pinnacle up the top, but as a player in a whole range of other players in an ecosystem. They’re part of a system, which means they have to act responsibly in the system.”

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Read 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, you can smell the desperation. The last two premier climate conferences have been hosted by oil sheiks and petro-tyrants who think fossil fuel is a “gift from god”. But even a dying snake can deliver a deadly strike. The climate movement is still doing a lot of damage on the way down.

When the climate movement is finally swept into the dustbin of history, this period during which our society taught millions of frightened children that it is their responsibility to save the world will rank high on the list of wicked acts committed by greens and their political enablers.

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