“Give us a child till he’s seven and we’ll have him for life,” is a maxim attributed to everyone from Aristotle to the Jesuits, but throughout history it is one well understood by would-be totalitarians. It’s why the Nazis had their Hitler Jugend, the Communists their Komsomol and Young Pioneers.

The totalitarians zealots of the Green-Left have been assiduously indoctrinating our children for decades via the education system. Now, they’re making it official. Call it the Thunberg Jugend.

Lessons in climate change, the environment and how to protest will be compulsory subjects at all schools worldwide as part of the Paris Agreement, under plans being developed for this year’s UN climate summit in Glasgow.

Can we please stop pretending that “climate change” is about science, rather than naked political ideology?

Teaching children about the environment, the green economy and how to take action against government to stop environmental harm are considered essential parts of preparing future workers for what campaigners say is the third industrial revolution.

Suddenly, Donald Trump’s decision to dump the Paris Agreement seems pretty smart. How stupid does a government have to be to sign up to a deal that allows the world’s single biggest carbon emitter to keep on increasing its emissions, while the UN is shackling our children to unscientific, Marxist garbage?

Very, very stupid, as it turns out.

Negotiators are hopeful details will be agreed at UN negoti­ations in Italy later this year so they can be adopted by leaders at the UN summit being hosted by the Boris Johnson-led government in December.

These watermelon zealots aren’t even trying to hide their agenda.

EarthDay president Kathleen Rogers said: “No country requires students to graduate from high school having deep knowledge of the problems and issues related to the environment and climate and also the opportunities[…]

Education on climate change and the environment needs to be integrated into all subjects,” Ms Rogers said. She said each country would be free to determine a curriculum that would be assessed by the international group.

The Australian

In other words, we’re free to do as we’re told by a cabal of unelected globalists.

But, hey, the Great Reset is all just a right-wing-nutjob conspiracy, remember.

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