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SCHOOL KID CLIMATE PROTESTERS

02/19/2019

Many of my own generation strongly condemn the school kid climate protesters. Perhaps typifying the attitude of my own generation is Australia’s Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, who commented of the school children climate protesters “What we want is more learning in schools and less activism in schools.”(1) Australia’s resource minister, Matt Canavan, capped this with the comment “The best thing you’ll learn about at a protest is how to join the dole (unemployment/social security) queue.”(2)

THE CONSCIOUSNESS GAP

02/15/2019

The long established importance of the so-called “generation gap” to explain much that divides society has been superseded by the consciousness gap. Those who are unconscious of Mankind’s part in the phenomenon of climate change, or who deny the part he plays outright, do indeed tend to belong to the older generation, whilst those most concerned at anthropogenic global warming tend to belong to the younger generation. But this is not universally the case. The world’s school children,

AERA PERNICIOSIUS - THE AGE OF EXTINCTION

02/12/2019

This current geological age, the Anthropocene era, denotes an epoch during which human activity has been the dominant influence on the environment and the climate. Perhaps a better expression would be "aera perniciosius" (destructive era). It seems to me that Mankind has been driven insane by consumerism and greed: his devotion to conspicuous consumption and his lust for material possession (in the west and in the newly developed world, the possession of stuff in quantities far beyond what

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Robert Dewar

SCHOOL KID CLIMATE PROTESTERS

THE CONSCIOUSNESS GAP

AERA PERNICIOSIUS - THE AGE OF EXTINCTION