Speaker 1: Even though we're using more than way they are used.
Speaker 1: We're at a twenty year low on SOE two emissions.
Speaker 2: This is an oil and gas lobbyist in Arkansas.
Speaker 1: Hey, and that money that we were starting that other
Speaker 1: countries is now going into the US or not.
Speaker 2: And she's not at an industry meeting or a right
Speaker 2: wing climate conference, which.
Speaker 1: In the jobs are will continue to be very important.
Speaker 2: She's actually standing in front of a seventh grade class,
Speaker 2: teaching them about energy.
Speaker 3: We've been hearing for a while now about oil and
Speaker 3: gas companies infiltrating schools, looking for future energy workers, or
Speaker 3: tinkering with science curricula. But over the past several months
Speaker 3: we've been digging into a different sort of industry influence,
Speaker 3: a darker sort. I'm Garden Nor from Earth.
Speaker 2: And I'm Amy Westervelt. In a new miniseries coming later
Speaker 2: this month, Darna and I partnered up to look at
Speaker 2: how the fossil fuel industry has shaped not just science education,
Speaker 2: but social science education. How kids view the economy and
Speaker 2: society and politics.
Speaker 3: How the industry trains future voters and business people and
Speaker 3: activists and journalists to narrow the possibilities for solutions. Starting
Speaker 3: in kindergarten and continuing into college.
Speaker 1: But you have to think about the challenge is too
Speaker 1: and we think two days.
Speaker 4: First of all, you you need to decide to standard
Speaker 4: of value what is most important. Thankfully we don't have
Speaker 4: to choose in this country. We've we're working out on
Speaker 4: a happy medium at this point. But if you had
Speaker 4: to choose, you need to decide is human life the
Speaker 4: most important thing, humors being healthier, wealthier, happier, living longer,
Speaker 4: or is Christine nature more important?
Speaker 1: But we wanna put building buildings with build The new
Speaker 1: nausis stop getting step out of the ground.
Speaker 4: We want to lead it exactly as it is, because
Speaker 4: that would be difficult. Ven just RedANT to ma is Chues.
Speaker 2: And just how much influence this framing has had on
Speaker 2: climate policy and environmental regulations.
Speaker 5: When you take your message and you put it in
Speaker 5: the mouth of someone who is teaching your children, who
Speaker 5: is told you know who children are told to believe
Speaker 5: and trust, it is among the most insidious and among
Speaker 5: the most effective forms of propaganda.
Speaker 6: It's not just that public policy schools are being funded
Speaker 6: by oil companies. Sometimes it's that the programs that are
Speaker 6: focused on climate or environment or sustainability, in particular, those
Speaker 6: are often funded by the oil companies.
Speaker 7: One would say that climate change is the defining issue
Speaker 7: of this century, but in thirty States, climate change doesn't
Speaker 7: show up in any civics class.
Speaker 3: Coming soon from Drilled and Earther. The ABC is of
Speaker 3: Big Oil.
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