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I have talked to several high school aged youth, as well as some college aged young adults. Most are extremely focused on how "climate change" will impact their life. I blame a lot of the younger liberal teachers for this-I have heard some of their discussions with their students, and I just want to barf. Teachers used to be told they needed to be "Switzerland" and make sure to present both sides, but not tell their students what to think OR tell them what they believe. That idea is long gone apparently. One young high school student was extremely anxious about his "carbon footprint," so much so he was giving his 5th generation farming father all kinds of grief and pushing to sell the farm, as the animals were destroying the planet. This stuff is real-and it is really insane! Another student decided to become a vegetarian and ended up really sick due to not getting the right nutrients. I am so sad for anyone believing the climate change lie. Nobody does their own research anymore. If they did, they would realize this climate hype and change of wording about the climate disaster had been going on about 50 years now-first we were going to freeze to death and have another ice age, and less than 20 years later all the polar ice caps were going to melt and drown all the coastal cities of the world. I am just amazed at what people cannot, or maybe will not, see. Keep your excellent articles coming!

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The tree-planting route might be good for a third-grader. Beyond that age, we should respect our children enough to explain to them the truth and expose the climate apocalypse lies. They are being indoctrinated in our schools. Planting a tree won't counter that. In fact, the idea of planting a garden to "use less diesel fuel to grow food” is exactly the type of emotional approach taken by the indoctrinators. The world cannot be fed with home gardens. That's a fantasy that shouldn't be supported. Nor can it be fed without fuel. Fuel is not evil. Don't make it out to be and thus reinforce the propaganda. Abundant, cheap energy, which at this point is fossil fuel, is what lifts people out of poverty. And less poverty means a cleaner environment That's what we should explain to our children. Come, let us reason together. That's what our children deserve.

An afterthought: the tree-planting exercise would be beneficial if used as a moment to explain why C02 is a good thing and not a poison, something basic that they probably aren't even taught these days

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