Just Stop Oil funder Dale Vince is pressing ahead with plans to flood British primary schools with environmental and Net Zero societal propaganda. Children aged 11 and under are being taught that they face an unprecedented global climate emergency, with the possibility that the planet is entering a sixth mass extinction. The solution of course is “sustainability” and green energy, a matter that is dear to the heart of multi-millionaire Vince. His ageing onshore wind farm company Ecotricity has collected £110 million in green taxpayer subsidies over the last 20 years, at a time when he has pocketed at least £43 million in various corporate payments.
The Ministry of Eco Education (MEE) was started by Vince in 2021 with the stated aim of “greening up the curriculum”. From an initial base of 15 ‘pioneer’ schools, it is working to scale this up to 1,000. MEE operates by inserting its messaging into all aspects of primary learning including transport, energy, food, nature and society. It aims to “save teachers time”, and it claims to have “rearranged the national curriculum” around what it describes as big questions. MEE also claims to be working with secondary schools to adapt its primary approach to Key Stage 3.
Although few lesson examples are available on the MEE website, it is easy to piece together some of the ideas being taught. A lesson on veganism notes that industrial farming has negative impacts on the planet, but apparently “isn’t just about food”. Most of the sources quoted are little more than promotions for veganism with a link to a Guardian article explaining why vegans don’t eat honey. There does not appear to be any discussion about the wisdom of removing all types of animal protein from the diets of very young children, something that many scientists think should be done only under strict nutritional supervision.
The education leader of MEE is Paul Turner and a video is supplied of him talking to a group of young children in the Ecotricity tent at the Womad festival. Bouncing around a giant globe, he explains that the correct level of carbon dioxide in the planet is the ‘magic’ number of 360 parts per million (ppm). Quite how he is able to point to such a precise – if magical – figure to stop the climate changing is not explained. There are many eminent scientists who think it is a little on the low side for animal and plant life to prosper. Certainly, the children are not told the dinosaurs lived in a world of plant plenty at a time when CO2 levels were much higher. Turner, who is described by MEE as a “radical geographer”, tells the children that we need to “hoover” up all the gas, and on this front Dale is making a contribution.
In fact the current level of CO2 is around 420 ppm and recent increases are believed to have led to a dramatic 14% greening of the planet. Hoover up all this extra CO2 and veganism starts to seem an ‘unsustainable’ option. Remove nitrogen fertiliser from agriculture as many eco-extremists want and the consequent massive reduction in crop yields starts to look like mass famine.
But then it isn’t just about the planet is it? In a paper published by MEE titled ‘Foundations for an Eco Curriculum’, it is said that “we are increasingly recognising that any efforts to tackle climate and ecological emergency must also respond to the structural inequalities inherent in society”. Furthermore, “any eco school curriculum must explore ideas of social structures and processes as much as they do the natural environment, as well as exploring the intersection of ideas such as gender, race and inequality. From a young age, children are aware of injustice and can apply ideas of fairness and the environment.”
In other words, children can be caught young and brainwashed with horrific, largely unsubstantiated tales of climate and ecological collapse – a process they have no intellectual ability to question – and be marched towards a collectivist society where ruling elites remove many personal freedoms and lifestyle choices. Oh, and energy can be provided by useless windmills requiring enormous public subsidies by enlightened philanthropists such as Mr. D. Vince.
Needless to say, MEE is not the only green educational propogandist operating in the U.K. As the Daily Sceptic reported earlier this year, other elite money is pouring into British schools. London-based Climate Science aims to supply free teaching materials, with children encouraged to plot implausible temperatures rises of 11°C, taught that alkaline oceans are ‘acidic’ and write letters to policymakers claiming “our house is on fire” in the style of Greta Thunberg. Among the billionaire backers are Schmidt Futures – the family foundation of former Google boss Eric Schmidt – and the Grantham Institute at Imperial, partly funded by green billionaire investor Jeremy Grantham.
MEE is also involved with the Young Green Briton Challenge, which has also attracted the ambassadorial support of TV activist Chris Packham. The new scheme operates on a Dragons’s Den format with 16 schools competing to win a £1,000 stake for a green project. Recently, Packham gave his backing to eco-protesters breaking the law and suggested that a “radical flank” could attempt to blow up oil refineries. For his part, Vince has given hundreds of thousands of pounds to Just Stop Oil, a group that engages in civil disobedience and criminal damage.
What a fine example these men set for the youth of today.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
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In another Dale Vince would be handling the purge quotas for Stalin. Infuriating our income is stolen in taxes and redirected to this Marxist spiv in bucket loads by a supposedly conservative government.
It could be time for me to become a school governor again. Enough is enough
Go for it, Graham.
So many are having to sell their cars in ULEZ.
They are, understandably, very unhappy.
Blair’s Britain.
Will the unfeasibly dim conservatives ever wake up?
No they won’t.
At the moment, only those directly affected have woken up:
‘Hertfordshire’s ten Conservative MPs have unanimously backed County Council Leader Richard Roberts’ opposition to Khan’s ULEZ expansion and to any ULEZ infrastructure being installed in the county.’
And the rest of them? Living proof that turkeys really do vote for Christmas…….
Yes, there is a GE to fight just round the corner. Wonder if they voted against Mays Net Zero bollards!
No because they are not really conservatives. ———-or as someone once pointed out (I think it was Nancy Pelosi) “We are all socialists now”
Sir William Harcourt first used the term in the 1880s
Well those who voted for Blair can hardly complain.
Mr Vince isn’t just working hard on the small children. He managed – inexplicably – to get a prominent agricultural college to join in. https://www.fwi.co.uk/farm-life/flindt-on-friday/flindt-friday-vegan-power-leaves-me-feeling-flat
The whole idea behind this scaremongering about a climate emergency is based on the idea that the wealthy west are using up too many resources. We have used more than our fair share of the oil coal and gas in the ground to become prosperous and we are to STOP. ————We are to fob our citizens off with turbines and heat pumps, get rid of our cars and only drive one if there is enough electricity from the wind, and if not the car will just have to be left in the drive. The Head of the National Grid about 10 years ago (Steve Holliday) said just that —“We are going to have to get used to using electricity as and when it is available”. I remember pointing this out to friends and family at the time which I have long since stopped doing as all that happens is that they look at you as if you are from Mars. It is the same when you tell them Polar Bear numbers are increasing, and this is the very big problem. Once people have something branded into their brain like a cowboy does with a steer then it is impossible to dislodge. To them Polar bears are in serious trouble because that is what their brainwashed brain has programmed into it. ——Targeting children and burning green propaganda into their brains is the tactic of the Progressive Left using climate fear to control wealth, resources and people, and these young brains will develop into adult ones with these pseudo science ideas firmly entrenched as if they were all ultimate truth.
People from X have posted a clip from Bill Gates :- https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=wmBj-5owOLA talking about climate change . The clip is at https://twitter.com/Resist_05/status/1712415047295840713. People claim Gates is back tracking from the clip, but if you watch the whole thing and not just the clip, I am not so sure.
So fed up with people who have far too much money that they don’t know what to do with it, so suddenly imagine that they are the new Messiah and have a God given right just because they have lots of money to control other people’s lives.
Why don’t they go build water treatment centres in Africa and India?, why don’t they go help these countries grow food, and build economies so that people come out of poverty?
Nope thats not sexy is it? Much better to set yourself up as fricking would be world leader.
Don’t get me started about Packhams shirt, where do you get such a thing? American dad 1950’s Golfing store? don’t stand too near a naked flame
Spot on ! The money ( most of it ours ) that these Charlatans have cast to the wind since early 2020 could have levelled up (in a good way) the whole World ! I’m spitting F in feathers at the hypocrisy of it all
Imagine you’ve become stinking rich by misappropriating taxpayer money with the help of corrupt politicians for more than 20 years. Why wouldn’t you think of youself as having the right to interfere with the lives of the people forced to pay your own bills as you see fit? To this guy, we’re a bunch of suckers which need to be given a fancy election campaign every five years or so, then, we duly make a cross on a piece of paper and feel very democratic about that. And apart from that, we pay, pay and pay.
Who gave this Vince Next Tuesday permission to re-write national education curriculae?
All of our MPs. They just keep their big gobs shut on the important stuff and gob off about the unimportant stuff like how it is important Great Ormond Street Hospital denies the gender identity of 99.9% of its patients by banning the use of four letter words like “girl” and “boys”.
A new messiah who’s as thick as bricks. A line from The Eagles song ‘Learn to be Still’ comes to mind :
“We are like sheep without a shepherd. We don’t know how to be alone. So we wander ’round this desert Wind up following the wrong gods home”
Smart man – Just Stop Oil probably scored a bit of an own goal. Better to catch them young so that the general public in future generations are all JSO supporters.
How do Chunts like him , money laden or not get to influence school policies ! Is it just smart phones that let us see all this SHIZ in real time !
Soviet Self-Censorship In The UK?
Fat Pig News Investigates!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIO3fJpnXLE
Dale Vince. Evil Dance.
Anyone asked Dale Vince or Chris Packham about the mass culling of wildlife those heavily subsidised, energy intensive, unrecyclable meat choppers are causing? Thought not.
If there was one gallon of precious oil left on this planet, I would use it to waterboard this grifting prick.
How can this be allowed to happen? An ex-traveller made good who pretended to be green but is just another businessman out to line his pockets. Vince’s background is mired in controversy. He doesn’t come across as a genuine, decent soul. Now he ‘plans’ to indoctrinate children? Doesn’t the material need to be vetted, confirmed, checked first or can anyone with bags of spare cash and some madcap ideology just flood schools with garbage propaganda? Are there not safeguards? What has happened to primary school teachers? Are they all ignorant and devoid of any sense?
Welcome to the neoliberal paradise! Privatized education! Now, please excuse me. Gotta srhink the state somewhat more. The plutocrats aren’t yet in direct control of everything.
This is so depressing. It never ends. Its relentless.
Shady busynessbodies terrormarketing their own products to schoolchildren looks like a pretty desparate move to me. That’s certainly not going to translate into sales or even just continued subsidies
Its the relentless indoctrination of children at school. It is intentionally creating generations of ill informed adults crammed with misinformation and bizarre ideas and has been going on for over two decades. Lots of it on Reddit and the like. Depressing.
The ‘settled science’ that supposedly underpins Net Zero is devoid of any science and plain common sense. Consider Earth Overshot Day, which will definitely be taught to young impressionable minds, and is described as follows:
“Earth Overshoot Day is computed by dividing the planet’s biocapacity (the amount of ecological resources Earth is able to generate that year), by humanity’s Ecological Footprint (humanity’s demand for that year), and multiplying by 365, the number of days in a year.”
The graphic below shows that we get through 1.7 Earths every year. Is it really necessary to explain how absurd this assertion is? If you had enough fuel and food to get through the entire year but it was all gone by August then you would not get to the end of the year and by the logic of this assertion the Earth ‘biocapacity’ ‘budget’ is -0.7 and overdrawn, so how does the ‘biocapacity’ get restocked because this contrived situation has been going on for 50 years! It is possible to look at this logically with some basic maths, but maths have been used to give a thin veneer of science!
“If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions.”
Richard Feynman
In the case of maths, this is under attack as being either racists of colonialist, probably because if children are taught to think and be properly mathematically literate it makes it harder to brainwash them. The following is from Edinburgh University School of Mathematics.
Decolonisation in Mathematics
The School of Mathematics is committed to ‘decolonising the curriculum’, the process of undoing the effects of colonisation and rethinking mathematics that unfairly maintain a European-centred mindset.
It is commonly believed that, as a subject primarily focused on processes and patterns, mathematics is separate from the history of people and the biases of humans have very little relevance. The School of Mathematics recognises this as untrue, because the study of mathematics was conceived by people and so cannot be exempt from the complex history of those who developed it.
The ways in which modern mathematicians, and the mathematicians who came before them, understand the world will have been rooted in cultural mindsets that regarded a Western – or colonial – mindset as the unquestioned authority on mathematical knowledge. But this is not the case, and it is important to recognise contributions to the field that have previously been overlooked or deliberately erased….
What a load of utter Bollox Overshoot Day?
FFS!
Only option is for parents to counter the propaganda in the home. Oh…
The trouble is we don’t find out about it until it is all too late. Try putting kids right when these ideas are fixed in their heads. You can’t and if you try it creates strife in the home.
Isn’t all this green, ie political school curriculum ‘help’ illegal? Or is it a case of the end justifies the means and mere laws are just an inconvenience to be ignored.
UK law requires impartiality in the teaching of all political issues.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/61f137688fa8f5058a4b2f44/6.7731_DfE_Political_Impartiality_Guidance_Pamphlet_WEB__004_.pdf
Thanks for that Smudger.
What is ‘political’? Lots of issues are political issues even if you may not think so.
That DfE document [What you need to know about political impartiality in schools] says this on page 2:
“You may need to think carefully about what is and is not a political issue. Our full guidance provides more detail on this. Some issues are clearly political, such as those relating to ongoing government activity, whilst other political issues may not relate to government at all.”
Is every controversial issue political? Gender identity? LGBTQ++ issues?
This is fraught. And a lot of issues will continue to be taught in schools in a biased way. That is an implication of this explanation [my emphasis added]:
How to teach political issues impartially – new government guidanceFarrar & C, Solicitors 02.03.2022
“What are political issues?
One of the key aspects that makes this area of law difficult, is that the meaning of “political” is not defined in the Regulations. Sadly, this term is not defined in the new guidance either, stating instead that “identifying a political issue” is a matter of “reasonable judgment” for teachers.
The implication of the guidance is that a “political issue” is one that relates to “ongoing government activity”. It can also be implied from the guidance, and the limited case law in this area, that merely talking about an issue of “ongoing government activity” does not make that issue political – there must be a persuasion to a particular point of view.
The following are some of the examples of “political issues” given in the guidance:
The government recommends that if schools are unsure if something is a political issue, it is advisable to for the school to avoid promoting a particular view and the issue should be taught in a balanced manner.”
Kids are scared enough about the fictional ‘climate emergency’ this could send many of them, and their deluded parents over the edge.