The Irish Creamery and Milk Suppliers’ Association (ICMSA) has hit out at a “biased” draft document for a “climate action” Leaving Cert module, which would teach students how to engage in climate activism.
Last week Gript published a report about the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment’s (NCCA) new Leaving Cert draft document, entitled “Climate Action & Sustainable Development”.
“Direct action, civil disobedience, boycott”: A draft document for a “climate action” Leaving Cert module would see children taught “how to effectively organise themselves to take action” on climate change, and study the “tactics” employed by “activists.”https://t.co/VoQg1VmtGI
— gript (@griptmedia) March 14, 2024
The proposal – which is currently open for public consultation – is designed to help students to “organise” around climate issues by studying activities like “lobbying”, “civil disobedience”, “boycotting,” and various “tactics” used by “activists”.
It would also have students study “the role of Irish agriculture” in “climate breakdown”, as well as climate regeneration, and economic “degrowth” (the idea that the economy must shrink for the sake of the climate).
“A MOVE FROM EDUCATION TO INDOCTRINATION”
Responding to the report, ICMSA President Denis Drennan said that farmers had “no problem whatsoever” with pupils being taught “the scientific evidence” behind the climate change or “science-based solutions.”
However, he said they “most certainly” had a problem with what Drennan characterised as “ideology masquerading as science” and “a move from education to indoctrination.”
FARMERS PAINTED AS “THE ENVIRONMENTAL BADDIES”
“ICMSA accepts the reality of climate change and our responsibility – along with everyone else – to step up and meet the challenge,” he told Gript.
“But we object completely to the kind of baseless and groundless discourse that has farmers – and farmers alone – as the ‘environmental baddies’, while everyone else is absolved of the need to do anything meaningful that might discomfort or inconvenience themselves.
“We have said it before repeatedly and it’s never been seriously disputed: it is entirely possible to mitigate climate change and lower emissions while preserving the critical economic and socio-cultural role played by commercially viable family farms. It is not an ‘either/or’ and never has been a ‘either/or’.
NEXT GENERATION BEING “MISLED AND MISINFORMED BY A BIASED EDUCATION SYSTEM”
“If that is the way this course is going to be presented, then we slip downwards from education to indoctrination and the next generation – so far from knowing the facts and being enrolled in the solutions – just end up being misled and misinformed by a biased education system.”
He added: “We need to deal with the facts, and not ideology.”
The consultation period opened on February 2nd and closes on April 5th 2024. Individuals can respond online here.
DESCRIBED AS “ABSOLUTELY SCANDALOUS” BY ONE TD
Drennan’s comments seem to echo similar remarks by Michael Fitzmaurice TD of the Independent Ireland party, who told Gript that the plan seemed “designed to indoctrinate young people” and that it was “absolutely scandalous.”
“Designed to indoctrinate young people”: A Leaving Cert draft curriculum which would see students studying the tactics of climate activists has been described as “absolutely scandalous” by Michael Fitzmaurice TD of the Independent Ireland party.https://t.co/zw0Ik5mhOB
— gript (@griptmedia) March 16, 2024
In an article last year, Gript revealed how the State-funded Green Schools programme urges students to “eat less meat and dairy” to save the planet, and encourages teachers to read picture books about Greta Thunberg saving the world to young students.
A State-funded group urges Irish teachers to encourage children to “eat less meat” & dairy in pursuit of climate goals, to introduce them to “vegetarian or vegan” eating, & to show them a picture book about Greta Thunberg. @Ben_Scallan reports:#gripthttps://t.co/mXiRdIsLym
— gript (@griptmedia) August 25, 2023
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Absolutely shocking to to see the WEF ESG scenario playing out in front of us – do not comply!
Why not teach kids how to milk or calf a cow? Something practical
Make their beds, wash the dishes, do the laundry correctly, prepare a nutrutiizs meal.
No Anne, they will eat ze bugs.
Perhaps bee keeping?
It is unlikely that the children will receive instruction on how to distinguish between a male and female cow or a trans cow, but they will quickly find out when they try to milk a bull.
🤣🤣🤣👍🇨🇮
Norma Foley !. Another vacuous airhead. She spends her time going around the country
to schools, handing out grants to refurbish the toilets while back in Marlborough street the ideology driven left wing radicals running her department get on with the serious business of the corrupting the next generation of impressionable minds through the education system.
You have it in one. Phot ops for the local rag.
Let’s hope they all resign,just a shower of proper gangsters 👹🇨🇮
Great article, refreshing to see the farmers being represented fairly.
I mean you could pick any trade or profession out and describe it’s ” carbon footprint”.
Even the Green TD”s fly, drive and heat their homes with hydrocarbons like the rest of us mere mortals.
The greens should never get airtime,they’re cuckoo all of them.I can’t see them ever getting into office again .
The ‘climate emergency’ is a power grab. Another way to lessen our freedoms. Resist this agenda at all costs.
See Rosa Koire ” behind the green mask”
See Nestle CEO trying to privatise ALL water
See UK OS.GOV
Deal with facts not ideology – when the narrative suits. The same approach not take on gender issue.
This is outrageous development. Brainwashing and conditioning youngsters. How can we stop it?
The people are waking up in this country and Veradkar can see the writing on the wall.
ICMSA put your money where your mouth is on this one and take out a couple of large billboard posters around the country highlighting the nonsense that this is. An additional radio and tv advertising campaign rubbishing the idea should do the the trick. Otherwise, prepare for decades of your farms being picketed.
The Brussels agenda might well backfire now Veradkar is out of the picture.👍🇨🇮
From parading around London with their Government mascot from the bar in Capel Street to pushing this climate brainwashing on impressionable youngsters this government has really lost any credibility or mandate to run this country. They are nothing but a bunch of globalist shills working for an outside agency. Commies.
The sad part is that the farmers and their representative orgaisations must affirm climate ideology in order to defend themselves. It is a mandatory self-defeating gambit on their part: we must admit we are doing harm in order to protect ourselves from harm only to find ourselves accused of not doing enough fast enough and therefore justifying our elimination. Farmers would be better off just saying “bull—-“!
Politicians have abdicated all meaningful responsibility to bullhorn-wielding NGOs. The rot started with Enda Kenny’s minority government. Since then we’ve had government by virtue signal.
Time for the adults to get back in the room and deal with real issues.
Your so right ,it’s imperative we keep pressure on this coalition,they’re an absolute disaster.
I’m all for ‘Degrowth’ – end the economic model of the Population-Growth Ponzi Scheme by sending home the asylum seekers, and shut the data centres.
farmers do not care ! they only worry about the payment from Brussels and will change direction if told by the Brussels Mafia just to get the cheque. but….maybe some are looking at the truth, like the covid nonsense, and seeing where it would bring them and all of us……a Green Utopia….
Fully agree greed is in full swing in Ireland