PragerU video compares climate activists to Nazis
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has already come under fire after the administration formally approved the use of far-right PragerU videos as educational material in K-12 schools, owing to these videos' distorted takes on American history, whitewashing of slavery and other issues.
Bzut that's not the only way these videos misinform children — PragerU also spouts false claims about climate science, according to Scientific American.
"PragerU CEO Marissa Streit told Scientific American that the videos are meant to counterbalance information students are currently being taught about climate change.
"'Young kids are being taught climate hysteria," Streit said. "They’re hearing that the world is coming to an end, and we think that there needs to be a healthy balance.'"
These videos use a teenage character Ania, who is concerned about climate change, and has her fears allayed by narrators who tell her that the climate has always cooled and warmed "long before carbon emissions were a factor" — which is true but irrelevant to the current crisis, which is directly caused by emissions of carbon into the atmosphere.
Other videos attack wind and solar energy as harmful to the environment and unreliable. The material even compares climate activists to Nazis, having a survivor of Hitler's regime compare his own struggle to Ania being criticized by her teacher and classmates after she repeats PragerU's talking points.
https://www.rawstory.com/prageru-florida-2662923106/
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