What is the United Nations actually for? To ensure that all Nations are United in idiocy. Last time around, we examined the Labour Party’s strange plans to insert green propaganda into every area of the U.K. school curriculum, no matter how unrelated. But whence does this madness ultimately emanate? Surely Ed Miliband’s own eco-ruined brain is far too underpowered by tiny cognitive windmills and solar panels to conceive such complex schemes all by himself?
Much Western impetus comes from the wholly unelected UN body of UNESCO, which has called for environmental studies to become “standard teaching in all countries by 2025” – only a few weeks away at time of writing, so we ‘free’ Western nations had better act fast.
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Primary school education in England and Wales is not bad, from looking at textbooks, but it starts to go downhill rapidly after that, this UN interference is just another burden.
The problem is the Education Blob, eager to adopt any progressive ideology that comes along. That is because they are educationalists, a strange bunch who have studied some useless subject to degree level, AND who are eager to avoid real jobs.
Many things forced on children are not in the least bit useful, but are taught simply because they are teachable and examinable. Oxbow lakes for example, still being taught 50 years after I encountered them in class, but never in the real world.
Get rid of some/all of the educationalists, and bring in people such as James Dyson, to prepare pupils for the world of real work.
To be honest, I found the formation of oxbow lakes to be one of the most interesting topics in geography. Though, now I come to think about it, what is an oxbow?
‘A U-shaped piece of wood fitted under and around the neck of a harnessed ox and attached to the yoke.’
“Primary school education in England and Wales is not bad”
Depends on your definition of “bad”. I used to do an activity in the hall of an infants school. The walls were plastered with stuff about “British values” and “anti-racism”. Why are schools involved in this stuff? Those things are for parents to communicate, not for a school.
What I’d like to know is when did education ( specifically at school level ) become woke? There was zero evidence of this when I was at school. Also, who’s pushing it? Because I think this goes way beyond who the Education Secretary happens to be, as this wouldn’t be a thing in many countries, would it? Yet again, I assert it’s coming from the usual ‘shadowy cabal’ that move behind the scenes, the architects of woke and those responsible for the overall fragmentation of society because that works in their favour, to weaken our communities and divide the populace. The ones that aren’t backwards in coming forwards about their ability to “penetrate the cabinets”. That’s where all this stems from. The politicians are mostly just mere puppets, being controlled by those more powerful.
Just in case anyone’s interested, this from 1 year ago lists all the Education Secretaries in the UK and a little blurb about them;
https://www.ssatuk.co.uk/blog/40-years-of-education-secretaries/
Indeed.
I was at school in the 70s and early 80s and I don’t remember any of that – no moralising beyond just being expected to behave ourselves and punished if we didn’t. My kids were at school about 20 years ago and there was more of it but nothing like now.
Definitely more conspiracy than cockup.
It’s a legal requirement to actively promote ‘British values’ in schools, I guess they don’t have a choice
Indeed it is, and they don’t. I don’t think there should be any legal requirements for what is taught in schools. Let parents choose.
Education knows what to do with the brightest students. Teachers want those classes, less hassle, more able students, get them over the line with their GCSE’s and A levels and pack them off to Uni. Easy. The problem is lower ability students who are disruptive and who do cause problems, and have little interest or ability to learn academically. The mantra there appears to be ‘keep them busy and out the way’. My wifes school even sections off the lowest and most disruptive and requires them to do three, two hour days, at a building away from the main school.
As teaching becomes more and more feminised, (80% plus classroom contacts are women Mogwai, before you try to label me as misogynistic.). I’m afraid that there just aren’t enough male teachers as figures of authority, punishments are staged and based on ‘personal reflection’ (yeah right…). I go back to my schooling where my Maths teacher might have only been 5ft 4 (Mr Smith…) but he was a former Marine commando, and carried himself like it. No-one messed Mr Smith about. We (as in the more able students) still had a game of rugby and a cross country run every week. The less able students had two games of rugby, a cross country run and an hour in the gym. It got rid of their energy and gave them other ways to excel through sports, not just be written off because they couldn’t sit still.
Society and the culture of entitlement plays a big part too. BAME? You’re a victim. Poor.? You’re a victim. Stupid.? You’re a victim, and we go easy on victims. We make excuses for you, of course, because we want equality of outcome. Mad…
Do you have a source for that figure, or can I expect you to spit your dummy out again because I have the audacity to ask such an unreasonable question? Also, if teaching has become “feminised”, who do you think is responsible? Because I think nowadays the teachers have very little control in what they have to teach kids. All of this material is mandatory for them to teach. So how’s about thinking critically and scratching the surface for once, just to see who’s running the show, as opposed to just pointing fingures? After all, there are plenty of women who oppose the woke mind virus just like there are plenty of men on board with it.
That would be the same Dyson who relocated all his manufacturing to Asia once he had made enough money by exploiting British workers to be able to do so? That’s certainly going to be a brilliant choice for preparing pupils for the real world: Don’t bother to acquire any useful skills, kids, you can never compete with Asians who don’t have to pay British taxes in world-wide work marketplace! Thankfully, there are so many rich people in Britain who’ll continue to buy my products that no one needs you!
Climate Change 100% Propaganda
I have come to think about the climate change, net-zero stuff as having much in common with the Nazi idea of the ‘Big Lie’. It seems to me to be a basic issue with humans that we have the ability to build a huge complex social structure on a false or dodgy basic idea, the social structure then becomes so huge and critical that nobody dares challenge the underlying false idea. With climate change I am inclined to think that a core of powerful people driving this know it is false but are driving it forward for insidious, evil, malevolent, anti-human intentions and they will do all they can to brook no opposition or dissent.
Goebbels wold have been green with envy if he could see what they have achieved and what they are doing.
Goebbels and his arm-raising friends would also have been very proud of all the Covid scams – although I can’t imagine any of them saying “a Scotch egg is a proper meal” (in German, of course). They were grown up fascists, not childish morons like Johnson, Hancock, Gove, et al
Yet the planes still fly, in greater numbers than ever.
And there will still be a need for engineers. If there are fools who don’t want to work and study (nor read Wind, Sand and Stars by St Exupery, for example) then there’s more space and time for my children to learn with those who do.
St Exupery was familiar with these deluded types, too.
President Trump will cut U.N. funding from the U.S. by 30%, about $6bn
And so he should. The U.N. approach to climate change is deeply flawed….because it is not backed by evidence:
‘Andy Pitman, Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes admits that he and fellow climate alarmists have no idea:
♦ when and where so-called “tipping points” might arise.
♦ whether climate change will increase or decrease the Murray Darling water flows
♦ whether an increase in CO2 will cause more or less rain for a given location
♦ how climate change will impact cities and urban landscapes (Andy, stop upsetting the Melbourne and Sydney city councils’ climate crusaders)
♦ how wind droughts and heavy clouding might undermine renewables and net-zero targeting (via week-long blackouts).
In a repudiation of the “settled science” notion the climate crowd has pushed for 25 years, Pitman now acknowledges that despite decades of study, the catastrophists still have no idea if Australia will see more El Nino, rather than La Nina, climate events, or even whether more vegetation will reduce or increase greenhouse emissions (so much for tree plantings offsetting emissions). “These are not easily solvable but offer profoundly different futures for Australia,”.
Odd that we are to invest trillions in net zero when we have no idea what’s what.
Other profound unknowns include, according to Pitman, include sea-ice extent, cloud processes, ice-sheet dynamics and urban and agricultural landscape impacts (p22). He lets another cat out of the bag with news that between March 16 and 18 of this year, a giant 70-billion tonne snowfall hit East Antarctica, contributing to a net ice gain in Antarctica reversing the 20-year trend of ice loss.
Climate models remain too crude to handle the key processes of atmospheric rivers around the Antarctic which created that startling reversal, he says (p25). This is quite a hiccup to the orthodoxy of Antarctica contributing to sea rise, a typical manifestation of boffins’ “incomplete” knowledge and “major gaps”.
Pitman even concedes that current climate models can’t predict whether natural disasters will become more or less common in the warming era. Remember his words when you next hear the ABC or Climate Council claiming that such-and-such storms and floods are “climate-fuelled”.
As for global climate models, Pitman says they aren’t fit for purpose as they can’t catch “key processes in all spheres of the climate system.” With the globe divided into 100-square-kilometre units, models can’t represent “critical weather systems” such as Southern Ocean. Nor can they predict weather-disaster processes such as the lead-up to the Lismore 2022 floods.
He wants resolution improved down to 1 square km, “overcoming a long-recognised Achilles heel in climate modelling.” (p17). The super-computing cost? He doesn’t say.
Pitman also threw the climate dogmatists under his Uncertainty Bus with these further remarks:
‘Climate predictions are built on very old science……’
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/12/13/climate-science-you-can-believe/
They don’t need evidence because it isn’t about science and never was. It is about Politics and that doesn’t require any evidence.
Which is why President Trump will, quite rightly, cut U.S. funding for the U.N.
The UK and EU just hate Trump for throwing a spanner in their phony planet saving works——-Trump is “Man of the Year” though, not Starmer, nor any technocrat from the UN or WEF. Trump has it 100% right and the phony planet savers have it 100% WRONG. .
Check out UK Fires, a collaboration from Oxford, Cambridge, Nottingham, Bath Universities and Imperial College, London which is advising the British Government and you will find that that is precisely what they are promoting here.
https://ukfires.org/impact/publications/reports/absolute-zero/
They intend that we should live in a pre-industrial world. Welcome back to the standard of living of the 13th century. (But it won’t apply to the “Elites” of course.)
Never forget that Chancellor Sunak was fully on board with the Agenda, saying in 2021 that the UK would “rewire” the global financial system for net zero, saying London will also commit 100 million pounds ($136.19 million) to make climate finance more accessible to developing countries. Outlining Britain’s strategy over the next five years to the United Nations COP26 climate summit, he said in addition to the 100 million pounds, London would also support a new capital markets mechanism to issue billions of new green bonds.
Our only hope of stopping the process has just been re-elected as President of the USA, and in due course a Reform Government in the UK.
That report is insane. Pseudoscientific anti-human nonsense. Fu#@ Cambridge University. This crap needs to be utterly destroyed.
Living in a mud hut and doing subsistence farming sounds ever so romantic. Until you starve to death.
The 2030 deadline for the Great Reset is looming and it is evident all the stops are out to get their, and it doesn’t matter how blatant.
When kids and young people start giving up their mobile electronic devices, home entertainment systems, meat products, takeaways, foreign holidays, private transport, and other ‘polluting extravagances’, and when they blame the West, and Western culture (past and present) for all the world’s climate ills, then I will know that this (Western) civilisation has come to an end.
But I’m hopeful that once out of the clutches of these academic zealots, most of them will see sense.
” It basically says everything you’d expect it to about the necessity of mankind living in harmony with nature”
Just like the Georgia Guide Stones. There seems to be a conspiracy of silence over who blew them up, and why they were subsequently demolished when they could’ve easily been repaired.
” Spanish politician called the whole thing a “Communist plot”
Buy the man a pint!
You have to ask yourself who actually are the educated, if any, for surely teachers pushing this utter drivel out are not educated, and the little “darlings” soaking this idiocity up are definately not educated, I can only assume they think we are all going to go back to medieval/caveman eras for the good of the planet, which up to roughly 50 years or so was managing perfectly well on its own, its called weather, not climate change!!!.
In 1614 Galileo was arrested by the Inquisition, imprisoned and banished and had his writings banned because of expressing his belief (fact) that the Earth revolves around the Sun and not as the Pope and Catholic Church (settled science) insisted, that the Sun revolved around the Earth. A mere 376 years later, in 1992, the church finally apologised and changed its mind.
I’m old enough to remember the Maoist Red Guards and the waving of their little red books. When would that be? 1960’s? Then it was the cultural revolution. Now its the climate revolution. East now West. History repeating itself. This cult will eventually fizzle out but not before I do I fear!