" ... Australian schoolkids by the million are being saturated with actor and climate hysteric Damon Gameau’s ridiculous climate-zealotry film 2040.
... a million brainwashed kids looks like an under-estimate.
The video also says more than 550 schools have been “activated” by teachers to promote Gameau’s green brainwashing.
... For The Greens, schools are the bulk store for its recruits.
No wonder, since kids in class are swamped with greenwash that teachers download from Cool Australia ...
... The premise of his film fantasy is that he time travels to 2040 and discovers that all his green solutions have been a brilliant success.
He helps his real-life four-year-old daughter, Velvet, to navigate through climate perils to 2040’s nirvana.
The movie closes with rapturous music and vision of youngsters of all colors and creeds dancing through a forest to celebrate low CO2 levels.
One 20-something gal in a white frock grows from her shoulder-blades giant butterfly wings that actually flap.
This must be the cheesiest movie clip ever made or even imaginable.
... Somehow Australian schoolkids (as distinct from Singaporean kids) no longer just learn stuff; they’re incited to change the world green-wards.
Political activism is now mandated by the curriculum.
A typical Cool/2040’s lesson opens with a “Thought starter:
“What excites you about the future” and kids are then exhorted to discuss the merits of “Carbon sequestration” and “Sustainability”.
Never mind that carbon sequestration is just another ruinously expensive and futuristic “solution” to harmless CO2 emissions, and “Sustainability” is an undefinable feel-goodism.
Kids obviously will parrot that “the environment” is their future concern ...
Kids must then scrawl on their work pads answers to “What is one possible solution” and “Who is responsible for this solution and why?”
Thus kids who have trouble solving 9×13=?, are coached to guide our planetary destinies.
The 2040 “Factsheet”, by the way, finishes by telling kids to send letters to politicians and join the school-strike manipulators Youth Climate Coalition.
They are also to run around ordering adults to cut their emissions.
It’s the strangest “Factsheet” ever compiled by homo sapiens.
Education authorities bemoan that curricula are crowded with extraneous content.
But they have endorsed prodigious school time being spent on 32 lessons about a woke fantasy film.
Dig this 2040 lesson plan of 70 minutes –and this is before kids waste another 92 minutes seeing the film:
Work through this resource material in the following sequence:
10 minutes – Part A: Activating Prior Knowledge –
OPTIONAL
20 minutes – Part B: Concerns For The Future – Barometer Activity
15 minutes – Part C: Thinking About The Solutions
25 minutes – Reflection
The lesson templates would do credit to Soviet-era indoctrination.
... A further Soviet-style technique pits the majority in class against any child with non-conformist views, such as “My parents say zero CO2 by 2050 is total b/s”.
(Dissent is encouraged over orthodox detail like whether we should give up meat or how soon the planet risks frying up).
Kids are paired and one writes down the other’s ideas about renewables.
Then the ideas are “shared” with the class.
... The teaching materials claim, “Most forms of renewable energy generally have a much lower environmental impact.”
Sure, take a look at any wind farm stretching to the horizon, and scores of thousands more would be needed for “zero” emissions.
I have found no mention of where electricity is to come from at night during a wind drought ...
The brain- and green-washing is having serious impacts on kids’ positive attitude to life and mental health.
Hardly surprising when teachers confront kids with rubbish like:
Kids are even told air travel must cease:
Flights need to stop, or at the very least, be reserved only for emergency situations.
... You can take a positive step right now and Pledge to never buy another gas powered vehicle again and get the “Last Gas Car” bumper sticker.
Gameau says he had climate scientists fact-check his masterpiece.
... Gameau in the film quotes that “Governments spend $10 million a minute subsidising fossil fuels.”
That would be $A(AUSTRALIAN)5.3 trillion a year.
Australia’s total GDP is only $2 trillion.
The Cool/2040 crowd also spruiks WWF’s insane “Earth Hour” which sees kids and adults turn off lights for an hour to virtue-signal for the planet.
It’s a pity the lessons don’t include info about the 800 million peasants without electricity, and the life-threatening discomforts involved.
Instead, and incredibly, 2040 promotes Bangla Desh as the energy model the rest of the world should emulate.
Remember, maybe a million schoolkids in 500-1000 schools are being bombarded with these dark green fantasies.
The zealots throw science and truth out the window.
They lie to kids that CO2 caused episodic warmings in the paleo-climate when ice cores show that warming preceded CO2 rises.
They lie that warming causes droughts, even after Professor Andy Pitman has contradicted that.
The warmist materials cite the 2011 Texas drought to prove their point – never mind that Texans lately have been freezing and flooded.
... Interviewer:
How much did you know about the specifics of climate change prior to making the film?
Gameau:
Absolutely nothing.
I found myself struggling to connect with it.
He claims he did homework for eight months before starting the shoots. This involved briefings from the usual pack of academic alarmist shills posing as “scientists” and offering their faux “solutions”.
... His USP (unique selling proposition) is optimism, e.g. that growing and eating lots of seaweed will make life gay in 2040.
+Cool’s lessons on 2040 excoriate “climate deniers”.
For example, kids can click on Cool’s link to Melbourne University’s Dennis Muller, who rants that the climate peril is worse than nuclear war.
Muller says, “Media ‘impartiality’ on climate change is ethically misguided and downright dangerous.”
Muller, who remarkably is Senior Research Fellow in the so-called Centre for Advancing Journalism, writes to laud our universities’ Conversation editor Misha Ketchell for his “zero tolerance” against any readers’ deviation from the party line on global warming.
Ketchell was so troubled by commenters taking his academic catastropharians to task he banned comments on the site.
Ironic, no?
A ‘conversation’ in which only one party is allowed to be heard!
... Because the Murdoch press hosts some sceptic and right-of-centre information ... kids’ lessons include anti-Murdoch propaganda. Says the class material:
Rupert Murdoch owns almost 70% of the newspapers that are read daily in Australia.
He is the prominent ‘narrative gatekeeper’ in our country … 55% of stories that accepted the science contained incorrect facts or impacts.
Talking of “facts”, the Cool/2040 Factsheet admits that recent warming is merely “believed” to be from human’s CO2 emissions, and that dire forecasts of warming are the mere product of “a range of models”.
The fictive “facts” then arrive in legions.
They include that sea ice in the Antarctic is “frequently at record lows” (record highs more like it)
and that hotter weather is harming quality and availability of crops and foods.
Not so.
Recent bleaching supposedly harmed 93 per cent of the Barrier Reef.
(Not so, but auditing that figure will get you fired, like Peter Ridd).
Plants, fish and animals are scampering from the equator towards the poles.
“Facts” include “Other impacts we might see…”
such as species’ extinction, weather extremes and worse diseases.
The doozy of all the Factsheet “Facts” is that “Sea-levels are expected to rise approximately 2.3 metres for each degree Celsius of temperature rise.”
For starters, sea rise for the 20th Century global warming of 1degree C was about 20cm not 230cm.
Second, the IPCC forecasts sea rise for the next century of under a metre.
If Cool/2040 think we’re in for at least +3degC of warming by 2100, that implies +7m of sea rise, nearly twice the height of my townhouse.
... In a decade of googling Cool and other class materials, I have not once come across any reference to world-reputed sceptics like Anthony Watts, Joanne Nova or Ian Plimer.
Rightists like Andrew Bolt and Alan Jones are sometimes cited but only as Aunt Sallies for kids to mock,
while Gameau’s materials push kids to videos by “woke” oracles like “Bill Nye, the Science Guy”, a mechanical engineer turned actor-comedian-propagandist.
Gameau’s material for kids blithely advocates overturning Western civilisation:
Tackling climate change requires large-scale, systemic changes across all aspects of society.
Simply aiming to reduce our C02 emissions is not enough: we need to rapidly decarbonise our planet. "