The Power Of Propaganda.....

[10ClarionSt]

...........on young minds was evident yesterday when school children around the world made their protest about climate change. If the government and the media say it often enough, then it must be true, right? But climate change is natural. All the initiatives so far have achieved nothing except put money into peoples' pockets.

[naomi24]

I agree. A lot of people are making a lot of money out of climate change.

[Rockrose]

Do you not think that children can think for themselves and can see that there is a climate issue

[naomi24]

Children know what they're taught.

[ummmm]

No...children have their own minds.

[naomi24]

They don't make it up, ummmm. They learn what they're taught.

[ummmm]

I disagree.

[Zacs-Master]

Depends what age they are. I’m pretty sure 6th formers have a different opinion to their mentors.

[Ken4155]

I believed in God as a child because i was constantly told he existed. However, by the age of about 11, i stopped believing because i had learned to think for myself. So, while it may be true that children believe what they are told, as they grow up to be young adults, their perceptions do change.

[naomi24]

Ken, indeed.

[douglas9401]

Is 'propaganda' not the stuff of despotic regimes while we go with the 'nudge effect'? :-)

[Zacs-Master]

Fruit machines. Now they’re addictive!

[CrapAtCryptics]

The children saying they have no future - your future is exactly what you make it and missing school days wont help.

[agchristie]

I wonder what % of the electorate give the main reason for their political vote because their parent(s) voted for them!

[spathiphyllum]

And the earths actually flat which is also natural

[spathiphyllum]

Climate change is natural but since the industrial revolution human activity has made climate change rapidly increase

[ummmm]

I don't think I've ever influenced my children when it comes to politics or religion.

[vulcan42]

If the children really thought for themselves then they would realise that taking a day off school achieves nothing apart from having a day off school.

[ummmm]

What parent lets their kids have a day off school unless they are ill.

[ToraToraTora]

oooo you rebel 10CS!

[naomi24]

//What parent lets their kids have a day off school unless they are ill.//

I guess the parents of all the protestors had no objection to them skipping school.