tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post3948624172742220475..comments2024-03-26T17:03:03.877+00:00Comments on Climate Lessons: Targeting Children for the Cause of Acute Climate Alarm over CO2 - will the zealots ever stop?JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08534451304039918947noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-60811655454111471752013-05-05T10:39:04.003+01:002013-05-05T10:39:04.003+01:00You were right, Barry. Very well done!You were right, Barry. Very well done!JShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08534451304039918947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-42689560090517169972013-05-03T21:08:48.118+01:002013-05-03T21:08:48.118+01:00They should do..
I persuaded Bud Ward previously ...They should do..<br /><br />I persuaded Bud Ward previously to publish my comments, via twitter..<br /><br />BWAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-76618844537854561252013-05-03T13:40:34.746+01:002013-05-03T13:40:34.746+01:00I'd be pleasantly surprised (again) if they pu...I'd be pleasantly surprised (again) if they publish it. They seem to have raised the drawbridge after letting a few comments through. Good comment all the same, and I hope it does get there eventually.JShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08534451304039918947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-67281475460312542862013-05-03T10:17:11.053+01:002013-05-03T10:17:11.053+01:00
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Barry Woods s...<br />I added this:<br />http://bit.ly/Y1NUbL<br /><br />Barry Woods says:<br />Your comment is awaiting moderation. <br /><br />May 3, 2013 at 4:14 am<br />Leave the kids alone?<br />Psychotherapist Ro Randall: Should we be working with children about climate change?<br />http://rorandall.org/2011/03/23/should-we-be-working-with-children-about-climate-change/<br />“Climate change community groups often want to work with children. ‘We must get into the schools,’ says someone and there is a nod of agreement. It’s worth thinking about the psychology behind this.<br />Why is this idea so appealing?<br />And why is it so damaging?<br />—————————————————<br />this is well worth a read.. some extracts:<br />————————————————-<br />“The reasons given for working with children are usually two-fold:<br />We need to influence them while they are young. If they understand the issue and the effect of their actions, they will grow up finding it natural to care for the environment.<br />It’s a good way of getting to their parents. Who can resist their child pleading with them to change the lightbulbs because it will save a polar bear?<br />The damage<br />Both reasons are suspect. The first reason assumes that instruction – at best participatory, at worst didactic – is the route either to action or to the inculcation of positive values towards the environment. There is little evidence for this. We know that information based campaigns have a limited impact with adults, so why should we expect children to be different? As for values – these tend to be formed through experience, relationship, identification and social systems, not through information. If the school has an influence on values it will be through its culture, ethos and the relationships and experiences it offers not through the information it provides.<br />Both reasons also raise direct ethical questions. It is easy to engage the sympathies of children with stories of damage to the natural world and images of suffering animals they will identify with. But children have very little power. Of all the sections of society who might make an impact on climate change, they have the least influence, the least agency, the least leverage. There is a real risk of raising levels of anxiety amongst children that will not only cause distress in the immediate term but will in the long term lead to those children turning against the environmental causes we hoped they might espouse.”<br />————————————————<br />Ro Randall is very much a climate activist, founder of Carbon Conversations and part of the Climate Psychology alliance.<br />http://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/about-us-main-page/sg-test2/<br />Her son was even Kiribati’s climate representative (Un Fair Play) at Copenhagen<br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/blog/2013-prediction-climate-change-cop18<br /><br />Barry WoodsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com