New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and other Democrat leaders nationwide announce that students can skip classes Friday (9/20/201) to join the global climate strike aimed at protesting man-made climate breakdown. Is this just a craven political move, at the expense of taxpayers and of student learning, or a great way to give young people an active role in the crucial work to save the planet?
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Schools Let Millions of Students Skip Classes for Climate Strike to Save the Planet
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and other Democrat leaders nationwide announce that students can skip classes Friday (9/20/201) to join the global climate strike aimed at protesting man-made climate breakdown. Is this just a craven political move, at the expense of taxpayers and of student learning, or a great way to give young people an active role in the crucial work to save the planet?
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Sigh. I really don’t like the “Bill Whittle Now” episodes, at all. I know Scott is tasked with playing Devil’s Advocate, but the script always makes him sound so foolish. And sometimes he gets in a good zinger that Bill is unprepared for, and it makes Bill sound foolish, too. If you want an actual debate, can’t you get 3 progressives on one screen to fight it out with the R/A Team on another screen, and have a REAL debate?
I’m looking forward to touring the Atlantis of the West, New York City.
Wending my way through the streets in my gondola, looking at all the abandoned buildings. Docking my boat at the Freedom Tower oceanfront restaurant, fishing from the observation deck of the Empire State Building, good times!
I want to see the Florida area get a complete water change so if it ever gets dry again they can start over.
“What is beyond question is that people are living in a state of absolute terror perpetrated by people like Bill DeBlasio and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez who are telling young people we have ten years or else it’s all over.”
No, people are not in a state of terror, they are in a state of strong delusion sent by God so that they will believe this hoax. DeBlasio and Cortez are just tools of Satan used to spread lies and accusations.
Scott, You’re statement that ‘no one could say, “Its happening.” is not entirely correct. As a Nike Battalion Fire Controller during the Cuban Missile Crisis…and afterward, I did think, and say, “Its Happening” several times. Furthermore, after moving to California and being in SF Bay area (surrounded by Nuclear Defense Missile systems) I would go ‘crazy’ every time I saw the Long Range Surveillance Radar on Mt. Uminum go active, because, I, unlike all those around me, fully believed, “I know, its happening, We’ve got about 15 minutes to live.” The fact we survived this period in history is a miracle.
BTW, I think the school system are training the next generation that ‘when you don’t like something, agitate, demonstrate’ and I find that destructive in its self….about on the level of teaching the children to hate. They don’t know any better. They’re being taught to hate and fear and that will do them plenty of damage during their lives.
In fairness to me, I don’t know that I’ve ever made a statement that’s entirely correct. Thanks for the education, Jon.
Bill, my husband and I just returned from a train trip from Chicago to Grand Junction, CO and back (it was your suggestion from several months ago that gave us this idea). On the train, we had dinner with a woman from San Francisco who seemed fascinated with talking to someone from the Midwest. One of her questions was, “what do you eat in Wisconsin?” Huh?? She then proceeded to tell us in all seriousness that her good friends who were life-long Californians moved to Minneapolis/St. Paul recently as climate refugees. They had done extensive research and determined that Minnesota would be one of the safest places to move their family when the climate change became unbearable. I wish I had given her your website!
Just like Bill, when asked if I believe in climate change, I say yes. It’s always changing. Then I point out that the Mars polar caps are shrinking, and ask how humans are causing that. And I do not say it is melting. The frozen carbon dioxide is sublimating; going from solid straight to gas, just like it does here an Earth. May the main source of heat here in the Earth is just like Mars? You know, the sun.
Since Mayor Bill is so excited re: the kids getting involved in politics, kids will be allowed to take the day off to goto a Tea Party rally, right? Right?
The interesting thing is that Knowledge is about the only thing that can be shared without limit. The ability to do something with that knowledge is an individual thing and can be shared only in a Capitalistic Economy in the form of trading valuable products for valuable products based upon that knowledge.
Anything else is simply inoperative from the get go. The reason? Reality is real and magical thinking can’t and never has produced ANY value worth trading among people who are simply working to stay alive.
Get your kids out of the public school system ASAP. It is 15% useful learning 85% leftest indoctrination.
As Rush said so well fo today’s Democrats (about two decades ago, I believe, but far more true today):
“The only thing we have to offer is… fear itself!!!”