The Commie-Green Menace! Your Children At Risk!! Beware!!

[hatrack]

"A group in White City, Ore., has opened a broad attack on teaching environmental sustainability in our public schools and universities, calling it the kind of brainwashing Lenin and Hitler would do.

The group, Operation Green Out, ran two full-page ads in The Oregonian, Oregon's largest daily newspaper, earlier this year. They warned of a covert plot by the "international Green Party" to manipulate our school-aged kids into thinking green. One might say this is at least better than programming kids to think "red," as in communist. But the ad's sponsor says that red is the true color of the greens -- sort of like a watermelon: green on the outside, red on the inside.

Operation Green Out is an enigmatic organization. It is not a registered nonprofit organization, it has no listed telephone number, refuses to disclose its revenue sources and will not give out its street address. In its ads, it asked: "Why are political extremists targeting our kids?" Operation Green Out's self-supplied answer: "It's a political tactic perfected by dictators like Lenin and Hitler who brainwashed kids as a means to take over a nation." Green extremists, the ads went on, know that "if they brainwash America's children they control America's future."

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Just think of it: A vast international conspiracy discovered by a small organization right there in White City, Ore., population 6,000. One thing that really has Operation Green Out steamed is a collective (oops! bad word) effort by several nonprofit organizations, educational organizations and businesses such as Nike to promote "education for sustainability" in the classrooms of colleges and public schools.

Spearheading that effort is Second Nature, an internationally known nonprofit that works with hundreds of universities and businesses across the country. Its approach is to make sustainability a foundation of their teaching and practice. Second Nature and its partners define education for sustainability as empowering society's future leaders, teachers and business professionals to solve problems facing our planet, to help college campuses save resources, to improve the health and economies of local communities, and to work to build a just, secure and healthy society, with economic opportunities for all."

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http://www.tidepool.org/original_content.cfm?articleid=128804

[DenverDem]

1. Sustainablility is antithetical to unregulated capitalism, it's true.

Must then be communist.

What a radical concept, an economic system requiring endless expansion and growth soon exceeds a finite system of resources.

Science is communist, so demonize science.

[kestrel91316]

2. Don't yall know that God almightly himself.................

gave the earth to us Christians to rape and pillage as we see fit? And that it's our Christian duty to go forth and multiply and become hyperconsumers? Besides, the Rapture is coming real soon and all us Christians are going straight to Heaven to live with Jeebus so we don't give a rat's a-- what happens to the earth. You heathens can deal with the consequences of our actions.

(sarcasm off)