global warming a real estate scam?

Marla reports that her 13-year-old daughter came home from school after watching a compulsory viewing of Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' and announced that their entire suburb was at risk of being submerged.

"We only bought this house three years ago and the area is most definitely not flood prone," says Marla, "and I am angry that schools are now pushing the global warming scam and scaring our kids without a balanced discussion of the opposing point of view."

"It's not just scaring our kids that I'm worried about," adds Marla. "What about real estate values?"

"If this global warming propaganda is taken seriously, it can be used by the real estate industry to wipe out the value of all coastal properties," says Marla, "and I wouldn't be surprised if the real estate industry is in cahoots with the other money grubbing industries that stand to make millions
from these lies."

"So far, the ghastly green movement has only affected us in a minimal way -- recycling rubbish, going without plastic bags and using special light globes, that sort of thing," says Marla, "but having won on these little steps to manipulate our behavior the greenies are now determined to send us all back to the Dark Ages."

"And when they've done that," laughs Marla, "they will indeed inherit the Earth and all of our lovely coastal properties with it!"

"I remember being indoctrinated with anti-smoking propaganda back when I was at school and -- shame of me -- ticking off my grandparents for smoking," sighs Marla, "and look at how powerfully that propaganda worked on my generation."

"Now there is an gigantic anti-smoking industry employing thousands of people promoting bans on smoking, pharmaceutical industries are rolling in money from selling anti-smoking aids and the die-hards who refuse to quit smoking are being taxed to death by our non-smoking governments!"

"Imagine the similar powerful effect that climate warming propaganda may have on the current generation," warns Marla. "If nobody stops this nonsense we are dooming our kids to give up aspirations to own a home and instead to live in caves and have a minimum impact on the environment."

"Already, the green movement is becoming an industry using deluded converts to promote bans on vehicle emissions and measures to cut down our use of water and electricity," says Marla, "and plenty of entrepreneurs are making money out of selling deluded homeowners all sorts of eco-friendly gadgets at exorbitant prices."

"When the next generation has given up home-ownership in favor of living in caves, how much do you think those caves are going to cost them?" asks Marla. "Millions, that's what, and for every one of their carbon footprints they are going to be taxed to death by our carbon-friendly governments."

"Like current smokers, the only people who will be able to afford to live in houses are going to be the very rich -- those who can afford the exorbitant taxes," says Marla. "And that's why, in my opinion, housing affordability is already getting out of hand. It's deliberate policy to force us into eco-friendly trailers and caves."

"My parents were anti-smokers -- probably because their parents smoked -- and as such they didn't balance the propaganda I was learning in school with some 'inconvenient' truths about the dodgy facts being used to demonize smoking," says Marla, "and it's our job, as parents and homeowners, to stop the current global warming propaganda before it, too, gets out of hand."

"In that the anti-smoking propaganda didn't lead me -- as it did others -- to worse drugs, it was definitely good for me," says Marla, "but is the current global warming propaganda going to be as good for all of our kids?"

"If they are being taught that their actions are increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and setting off global climate catastrophes that will submerge whole suburbs if not whole nations and kill millions of people," says Marla, "then isn't this going to make them feel guilty about simply going about their daily lives, using electricity, driving, building a home and starting a family?"

"Won't some kids just give up, decide it's not worth living?"

"I don't see Al Gore and the other global warming enthusiasts living exemplary green lives," laughs Marla, "and if they think they can indoctrinate my daughter into becoming a unwashed cave dweller in order to support them in luxury then they have another think coming."

"I'm not scared of my house being submerged by global warming," says Marla, "but I am scared that at some future time when I may wish to sell that its coastal position may be used as a disadvantage in order to lower its value."

ideologically driven education

Myra remembers angrily how her education was blighted by compulsory religious instruction spewing out anti-communist propaganda and that of her daughter's with compulsory hygiene instruction spewing out anti-smoking propaganda. Now, she is hopping mad that her grand-children's education is not only going to be blighted by similar political agendas -- this time global warming -- but also by a complete curriculum change.

"Was education ever intended to educate children -- to stretch their minds and inspire them?" asks Myra. "Or was it always intended to be ideologically driven by whatever political agenda was in vogue?"

"I've heard that a complete curriculum change is being proposed -- to replace subjects such as geography and mathematics with more politically relevant subjects such as global warming and financial planning."

"Hello? Since when has global warming been established as an undisputed fact?" asks Myra. "And, although I like the idea of slanting subjects towards a practical application I am not happy about my grandchildren being force fed propaganda and being denied a rigorous academic grounding in time-honored subjects."

"Who are the gnomes responsible for proposing these changes?" asks Myra. "And how dare they dumb down our children more than they have been dumbed down already."

"Grammar started going out of fashion when I was at school -- along with classical Latin and Greek," sighs Myra. "My mother still corrects me for my grammatical errors and wonders how an ignoramus such as I ever gained a university education!"

"Likewise, spelling and the times-tables went out of fashion when my daughter was at school," sighs Myra."Nevertheless, she gained a higher degree than I did and not wanting to be like my mother I never dared correct her or take away her calculator."

"I truly believe that academic standards are dropping with each generation," says Myra. "I would never have passed an entrance examination of my mother's era, and similarly my daughter would never have passed one of my era."

"And, I believe that for every political agenda pushed into schools, some vital academic knowledge is being pushed out."

"Is it the aim of our educational gurus to churn out a bunch of politically correct idiots or what?

"I remember being scared out of my wits by Reds under the beds and the wrath of God when I was at school," says Myra. "And my teachers achieved this politically inspired instruction by dropping grammar, Latin and Greek."

"Similarly, my daughter was scared out of her wits by the evils of smoking and did so at the expense of a thorough grounding in spelling and mental arithmetic."

"So, what are our political masters going to drop from the curriculum in order to indoctrinate the next generation into being good little green environmentalists?"

"Oh, I know, it's going to be history, isn't it?"

"We're going to exchange history for current affairs so that the next generation never gets a chance to learn from the mistakes of previous generations, right?"

"Of course, past events significant to the political agenda being pushed will be mentioned," says Myra, "but all of the blood and guts, the heroes and the villains that we learned about will be dropped, and children will never be able to form their own opinions about anything."

"When teachers push political opinion rather than education and become more concerned about political correctness than academic excellence, we are doomed," says Myra. "Children will be indoctrinated, not educated."

"Okay, I survived my indoctrination -- there never were any Reds under the beds and God was never watching me with an eagle eye -- and my daughter survived hers to become a smoker of all things," laughs Myra, "but did we really need to learn this rubbish and do so at the expense of academic learning?"

"In years to come, global warming like everything else will have lost credibility," says Myra, "and I shudder to think of a world populated by grammatical dunces, bad spellers and people without any grounding whatsoever in mental arithmetic, geography, history, Latin or Greek."

"To be totally cynical," says Myra, "it's as if our political masters want to take us back the Dark Ages of illiterate masses and despotic rulers."

anti-smoking propaganda or hook?

Shayne is 21, a student and a smoker, who maintains that all the anti-smoking propaganda that has bombarded her generation since birth has not been a deterrent but has actually been a ‘hook’ to get kids addicted to a legally purchased product from which the government rakes in a lot of ‘sin’ money.

"The government deliberately makes those graphic warnings on cigarette packs ridiculous because it knows smokers won't believe them," says Shayne. "It wants to keep us hooked.”

“To non-smokers, it looks like the government is the good guy, doing the right thing, but it's not."

"If it weren't so serious I'd be laughing at these pathetic attempts to stop me smoking -- or keep me hooked," says Shayne. "What are they going to try next? Are they going to waste more public funds -- most of which is provided by the exorbitant taxes smokers pay -- to give us auditory scares as well as visual ones.”

“Will I open my pack one day and be greeted by the sound of a terminal cough?"

"Every time an anti-smoking or a quit product advertisement appears on TV I automatically reach for a cigarette," laughs Shayne, "and I bet those advertisements have the same effect on all the poor, deluded suckers trying to quit."

"Governments make more money from cigarette taxes than from any other type of tax," says Shayne, "and they know exactly what they are doing with all of their hypocritical anti-smoking propaganda."

"It's the cleverest bit of reverse psychology I've ever seen," laughs Shayne. "Sure, I'm a sucker for getting hooked but what chance did I have as a kid to work out what that anti-smoking education was really all about?"

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