Green Push on ‘Sesame Street’: Programming Your Kids For ‘Sustainable Living’
by Stage RightThis week marks the start of Sesame Street’s 40th season. As announced in an article in National Geographic, the show will be focusing on a green storyline this year:
As another example of the show’s forward thinking, Davis said, the new Sesame Street season that begins next week will introduce children to the basic ideas of sustainable living. “It’s a curriculum about nature and caring for the world that is just right for today,” he said. ”This show continues to stay very current with ideas that are in the zeitgeist.”
Sustainability. Makes you feel smart just reading that word, doesn’t it? Who doesn’t want sustainability? This is a great new tactic of the Left; the raping of our language and the use of beautiful sounding, unassailable words to represent an agenda with far more controversial ideas. Sustainability.
Sustainability is not just about putting your empty beer bottles into a special bin to keep them separate from your other trash. It’s also more than driving a car with a giant battery in it (which will eventually poison our water system after all of these “Hybrids” end up in a landfill… didn’t think about THAT, did you Mr. Begley?). It’s also more than building giant solar panels which require preciously scarce water to stay constantly clean and efficient or giant windmills which end up killing endangered birds. No, sustainability is not any of those ineffective yet relatively benign efforts at “saving our planet.” Sustainability, as a National policy, is the most regressive and dangerous idea the Green-Left has ever put forth. Sustainability is the death of the West’s economic dominance. (more…)
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