Posted on 04/16/2007 2:47:27 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
...Alex Hendel of Arlington County is talking about the end of life on our beleaguered planet. Looking up to make sure his mother is following along, he taps the final stripe, which is so sparsely dotted it is almost invisible. "In 20 years," he pronounces, "there's no oxygen." Then, to dramatize the point, he collapses, "dead," to the floor.
For many children and young adults, global warming is the atomic bomb of today. .....
Parents say they're searching for "productive" outlets for their 8-year-olds' obsessions with dying polar bears. Teachers say enrollment in high school and college environmental studies classes is doubling year after year. And psychologists say they're seeing an increasing number of young patients preoccupied by a climactic Armageddon.
...."This message about global warming is so powerful," Bronstein says. "It gives me hope for the human race because people are responsive to it." He also encourages anxiety about the planet's future, comparing enviro-fears to "any suffering in your life: The first step is denial, and then there's a sense of doom, and then you have to get up and shake it off and change something."
Which is exactly what happened when 9-year-old Alyssa Luz-Ricca's mother returned from a business trip to Costa Rica with a T-shirt of a colorful frog and the words "Extinction is forever." Alyssa looked at the T-shirt and, she says, "I cried."
"She cried very hard," clarifies her mother, Karen Luz of Arlington.
"I don't like global warming," Alyssa continues, her eyes huge and serious behind her glasses, a stardust of freckles across her nose, "because it kills animals, and I like animals."....."I worry about it," says this girl who has yet to lose all her baby teeth, "because I don't want to die."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
“Goreguilt”
I like it.
Ha! And "life isn't fair" is also instructive.
Yes. The MSM is doing a full-court press on this socialist drive toward anti-U.S./anti-capitalism.
Should wear a Tee that says abortion kills un born children.. see how far that would go...
What I recall about these drills was that the boys got to go down into the school basement. We girls stayed in the upstairs hall so as not to get our dresses dirty. We were so jealous!
....that we can't allow to truth to interfere with our best shot at mass acceptance of socialism.
I remember the ice age days,LOL. Then the killer bees and the population explosion, Haha, these people are a joke.
Now they all talk about the Missing Bee’s.....worldwide 40% have dissappeared.. some say it is a sign from above!
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