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Here’s another big concern about climate change: It’s ruining childhoods
Sacramento Bee ^ | September 11, 2018 | Gina McCarthy And Kelsey Wirth

Posted on 09/12/2018 5:59:30 AM PDT by artichokegrower

Climate change has been impossible to ignore this summer. Extreme heat waves and droughts sparked fires around the world and cloaked California in hazardous smoke.

(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: forthechildren; globullwarming
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As a result, children are being kept inside, even though outdoor play is critical to their growth and developing their ability to solve problems, think creatively, cooperate and gain a deeper knowledge of themselves. Staying indoors doesn’t give kids the opportunities they need to take risks and develop motor skills.


Kid's can't play outside. Too dangerous. Might get gunned down during a gangbanger driveby.

1 posted on 09/12/2018 5:59:30 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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If it isn’t blamable on Trump, then you can always rely on ‘climate change’. The absurdity is hilarious and pathetic at the same time.

Fake news is constantly bombarding us from the mainstream press and they wonder why nobody finds them credible. Global Warming is some of the most fake news of all time.


2 posted on 09/12/2018 6:02:53 AM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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Kids don’t want to go outside. They’re duct-taped to their computers and hand-held devices cruising the Interwebz.

“Mom and Dad...take away their electronic toys and send’em to the playground.”


3 posted on 09/12/2018 6:03:41 AM PDT by moovova
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Nope. What’s ruining childhoods are leftist’s stupid agendas. If “climate change “ ain’t gonna get the kiddies, it’s the ltbgfyuinvf lobby indoctrinating them into “it’s normal”.

Everything lefties touch goes to s**t. Everything!


4 posted on 09/12/2018 6:04:10 AM PDT by Maskot (soPut every dem/lib in prison...like yesterday!!!)
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GWCRAP
5 posted on 09/12/2018 6:04:23 AM PDT by FrankR (IF it wasn't for the "F-word", and it's deritiives, the left would have no message at all.)
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The same journalist who wrote this “science” article would have trouble making a light bulb light given the bulb, wires and batteries.
Can’t hack real college courses?
Try journalism.


6 posted on 09/12/2018 6:04:33 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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“Extreme heat waves and droughts sparked fires...”

Extreme heat waves and droughts start spark fires. Idgits with matches do.


7 posted on 09/12/2018 6:06:34 AM PDT by moovova
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You can always count on The Sacramento Bee for a coffee-worthy whacko-story.


8 posted on 09/12/2018 6:07:54 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs
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[Oops..let me try that again...]

“Extreme heat waves and droughts sparked fires...”

Extreme heat waves and droughts DON’T spark fires. Idgits with matches do.


9 posted on 09/12/2018 6:08:39 AM PDT by moovova
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Climate Change — Is there anything it can’t do??


10 posted on 09/12/2018 6:08:40 AM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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The insanity of the left knows no bounds.
We need thousands of new insane asylums to get these freaks off the streets to Make America Safe Again....MASA!!!!


11 posted on 09/12/2018 6:09:09 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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Have you seen any kids playing outside in the past ten years? They are inside, on their phones and video games. This “for the churdrin” plea should have gone out with Jocelyn Elders, who made it famous during the Clinton administration, where she was Sturgeon General.


12 posted on 09/12/2018 6:09:35 AM PDT by txrefugee
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Well, gee. Do you suppose that children’s happiness might be a tad lowered by being harped at by leftists in school all day?


13 posted on 09/12/2018 6:09:58 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Liberals have become moralistic, dogmatic, sententious, self-righteous, pinch-faced prudes.)
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Climate Change — Is there anything it can’t do??

It is the all purpose excuse for anything and everything.

The only caveat: Solutions must increase government power and spending.

14 posted on 09/12/2018 6:10:59 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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climate change: It’s ruining childhoods ...

Smartphones and video games are ruining childhood.


15 posted on 09/12/2018 6:11:03 AM PDT by Hang'emAll (If guns kill people, do pencils misspell words?)
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Kids aren’t playing outside because of incessant nanny-state bullying that threatens parents with negligence if the kid is out of their sight for any length of time, plus the constant media drumbeat of worry over child molestors (another leftist pastime, apparently), despite the actual rate of attacks on kids having dropped considerably since the 70s and 80s. The whole video games/electronics thing is just a symptom of the above, since the kid now has nothing else to do.


16 posted on 09/12/2018 6:12:02 AM PDT by Little Pig
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Miz Wirth

17 posted on 09/12/2018 6:13:30 AM PDT by simpson96
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Five years ago, a new Christ centered outdoor adventure organization for Boys was founded. It’s called Trail Life USA.

Growth has been staggering. There are a number of reasons for that but one is certainly that parents instinctively realize that their sons are not outdoors enough.

We had an open house recruiting event this week. One of my power point slides featured Pajama Boy on one side, the other side was one of our guys navigating a climbing wall and another photo of a five year old firing a BB gun for the first time.


18 posted on 09/12/2018 6:19:44 AM PDT by cyclotic ( WeÂ’re the first ones taxed, the last ones considered and the first ones punished)
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. The same journalist who wrote this “science” article would have trouble making a light bulb light given the bulb, wires and batteries. Can’t hack real college courses? Try journalism.

I'm not sure that the author of this opinion piece, Gina McCarthy, who is the former Administrator of the EPA during the Obama Administration, should be classified as a "journalist," per se.
19 posted on 09/12/2018 6:22:41 AM PDT by Milton Miteybad (I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
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Mom and Dad...take away their electronic toys and send’em to the playground.

And if history is any guide, mom and dad will receive a visit from Child Protective Services toute suite.

20 posted on 09/12/2018 6:25:13 AM PDT by grobdriver (BUILD KATE'S WALL!)
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