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"Wind and solar power pollute the Earth and make life miserable:" DeSantis's Florida Approves Climate-Denial Videos in Schools (www.scientificamerican.com)
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[–] 60 points 3 years ago (5 children)

PragerU has produced anti-climate policy videos since shortly after it began in 2009. The Prager foundation has received millions of dollars from the billionaire brothers, Farris and Dan Wilks of Texas, who made their fortune in fracking.

PragerU has received additional funding from foundations that oppose climate regulations such as the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.

PragerU CEO Streit said her group has tapped into angry parents who want their politics reflected more in classrooms.

Yup.

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  • [–] 41 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I see conservatives have already shifted from "take politics out of the classroom" to "put our politics into the classroom".

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  • [–] 32 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    That's what it always was. Many people view. "Politics" as simply being anything they don't like or disagree with.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Or anything that's not the status quo.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago*

    This is common, and it's why a lot of conservatives describe themselves as "not political" while acting and voting conservative. From their perspective it's just all these annoying people stirring things up and demanding change to a perfectly good situation who are the political ones.

    In general, when someone says "I'm not political," I hear "I'm unreflectively conservative."

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  • [–] 29 points 3 years ago

    If someone is lobbying for climate change denial then they’re guilty of something morally akin to treason, but it’s not treason itself because instead of just betraying just their country they’re betraying their entire species.

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