Dakota Beacon

In keeping with my recent focus on environmental nut-jobs hell-bent on de-developing the United States and "saving the planet," we go to PBS station WGBH in Boston--yes, the same station that produces This Old House.

WGBH approached Annie Leonard with a proposal. Leonard is the creator of the venomous, lie-filled, anti-capitalist, anti-American video, The Story of Stuff, being shown in classrooms across America. (Go HERE for the website promoting this video. Go HERE for a level-headed evaluation of the nonsense preached by the video.)

WGBH's idea was to produce a series of shorts, "Loop Scoops." The objective is clearly to push anti-capitalist sentiment by making the kids feel guilty about using everyday products.

The EPA also provided funding for the videos.

So here we have the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the EPA teaming together with an anti-capitalist activist and using taxpayer dollars to teach children that the capitalist system on which America is based is evil and destroys the environment.

The video that I watched (HERE) was focused around fruit juice boxes and is disgustingly manipulative. The video's makers even went to the trouble of using a narrator with an exotic-sounding foreign accent to increase the hypnotic brainwashing effect on kids.

Lee Doren of the Competitive Enterprise Institute describes the juice boxes video.

The cartoon is geared to children 6 to 9 years of age where they are taught that juice boxes are destroying the planet, consuming less is inherently good for society, and [that] we are using too many resources.

"Loop Scoops" videos are based on the same falsehood-riddled thesis on which Story of Stuff is based. Namely, that humanity is consuming way too many natural resources and decimating the planet. Leonard relentlessly pitches anti-capitalist values as the way to solve this "problem." The Story of Stuff as well as the "Loop Scoops" videos are also full of... well, full of outright demonization of industry and rancorous sales pitches aimed at giving kids the idea that bigger government is better government, for government is the people's savior--the only way to keep evil industry in check.

The longer that the environmentalist zealots are in charge of the asylum--the EPA--the longer we're going to see "Loop Scoops"-style drivel peddled to our kids as truth.

Elections have consequences. Americans must now hold the new GOP House majority accountable for enforcing the kind of consequences needed to stop the environmentalist indoctrination insanity.

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