Last night I was helping my 6 year old son with his homework for 1st grade. He has assigned books that he has to read each night. Last nights book was called Sea Turtles. It starts out nice enough, but two pages into it, it says that sea turtles are dieing because people don't take care of them. Next page says that sometimes people throw plastic bags into the ocean and the sea turtles eat them and die (picture of dead bloated sea turtles on beach). Next page says that fishermen use big nets and sea turtles get caught in them and die (picture of dead sea turtle caught in net). After he finished reading it, I brought into the living room so my wife could check it out. When she got to the pictures of dead turtles and read the pages, she shook her head in disgust. I told her that maybe the school could get some movies from the state DMV about the dangers of careless driving for the kids to watch, or maybe a movie about what really happens when the little kid helps the nice man look for his lost puppy at the park. We might as well get them on the right path early.
And was there also a story about little baby boys and little baby girls getting their arms and legs hacked off by an abortionist?
I don't see why reading about the danger sea turtles face from debris in the ocean is a bad thing for a child to know.
Its one thing if all the blame is put on the US or Bush but just the fact that stating that the oceans are becoming polluted is neither a liberal or conservative issue.
At least it SHOULDN'T be.