Environmentalism’s march towards full-fledged religion took another step recently as the Department for Children, Schools and Families issued guidance to teachers that our children should be taught about the needs of insects.
No doubt, after Peter Oborne’s documentary last night on the Pro-Israel Lobby, they’ll likely be taught that the needs of Palestinian children are best met by showering them in white phosphorous.
I used to laugh at a colleague who told me “perception is reality”. I shudder in the realisation that he was utterly correct.
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January 13, 2010 at 3:32 am |
Too right it should be taught.
If someone stamped on helpless insects deliberately, would it have been okay to have stamped on them as a baby?
Nope. This is exactly the sort of thing that needs to be taught to our youth, who have no respect for anything. School will not instill it though.
January 13, 2010 at 3:33 am |
environmentalism definitely has political direction if you ask me but how does that have anything to do with this?
Killing insects has nothing to do with environmentalism, it’s more about morals.
January 13, 2010 at 11:43 am |
You have a fair point: gratuitously pulling off the wings of insects has been an unpleasant childhood activity for millennia but if you’re right, isn’t it absurd to enshrine it in the national curriculum?
If it isn’t about respect and is instead about environmentalism, then I think it is worrying that our children are being indoctrinated in this quasi-religion via the national curriculum.
Here’s the quote that — in my mind — firmly puts this story into the environmentalist camp:
“important that young people develop an awareness of the responsibilities that flow from human relationships with the natural world”.