I posted yesterday about how Environmentalists promote education, especially of children, but it mostly delays action, pointing out how there has been plenty of education, especially of children, but effectively no action for generations.
I should be more clear.
Yesterday’s post came from a book on economics. I also just finished The Nazi and the Psychiatrist, which is relevant.
Consider Europe in 1939 and 1940. Fascism is spreading. Hitler is invading nation after nation and taking them over.
Should France, England, and the rest of the allies responded by teaching children about the problems of fascism and Nazism in 1940?
Well, sure, I guess to some extent kids should learn about those problems, but it’s not exactly the top tactic in the moment. I wouldn’t oppose teaching children then, but there was a much bigger, more poignant problem than children’s awareness.
The allies had to respond with everything they had as soon as possible.
Today we have to respond with a lot more than teaching kids. I don’t see teaching kids as making any more difference today than it did in 1940.
We need effective leadership. I’m working on it. I wish I know of others working on leadership applied to sustainability or other major problems today.
Meanwhile, if you think I’m making a comparison I shouldn’t, like you think the Nazis were incomparable worse than anyone, read my post, The Scale and Pollution and Depletion’s Effects on People: Here, now, not future projections. Here’s a relevant plot from it, but read that post for more detail:
