Mike Huckabee’s “Kids Guide to the Truth About Climate Change”

Here’s an article from Inside Climate News called: Mike Huckabee’s “Kids Guide to the Truth About Climate Change” Shows the Changing Landscape of Climate Denial—Producers of climate misinformation are targeting kids and families, delivering an updated message that acknowledges global warming, but minimizes the influence of human emissions.

It begins:

Beverly Grimmett thought the kids magazines she saw stacked on a coworker’s desk this spring were perfectly innocent, until she picked one up.

“My stomach turned,” Grimmett said.

The guides were decorated in bright colors and cheerful cartoons, with titles like “The Kids Guide to Socialism,” “The Kids Guide to Our One Nation Under God,” and, finally, “The Kids Guide to the Truth About Climate Change.”

There is no way of measuring the damage that this propaganda is inflicting on American society, and there is certainly nothing we can do about it.

We need to live with the fact that climate change may render this planet virtually uninhabitable, and there still will be people, incapable of critical thinking, who support the fossil fuel industries, simply because they are told to do so.

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