Unthinking Environmentalism
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Jun 09 2007 at 10:00 am | Filed under: Education Watch, Global Warming, Linkfest
The other day, I attended an end of the year performance at my kid’s school. The theme — no surprise here — was global warming. I would have been more impressed if (a) the school hadn’t used three pieces of paper for each program, when one piece, or even half a piece, would have done just as well; (b) the place hadn’t been festooned with balloons, one of the big hazards to wildlife (animals choke on them); and (c) everyone hadn’t been relying on a huge, energy-sucking sound system which, as it happened, rendered every speaker completely unintelligible (it was huge, but it wasn’t good).
Frankly, I would have been much more impressed if the show had actually centered around academics: perhaps a scene from Shakespeare, or a reenactment of a historical event. As it was, I got a lot of bland environmental pap, packaged in an exceptionally wasteful environment. I also came away with the sense, again, that while my child is not learning a great deal academically, she could get a masters in such important subjects as picking up trash from the beach, or rapping about pollution.
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