New York’s Climate Kops Shun Light, The Bringer Of Daymares
THE Green Shirts are coming. No, not cub scouts. Worse: Klimate Kops.
The New York Times spots them watching you:
Sometimes, Jennifer Ross feels she cannot make a move at home without inviting the scorn of her daughters, 10-year-old Grace and 7-year-old Eliza.
Mom is like soooo embarrassing….
The Acura MDX she drives? A flagrant polluter. The bath at night to help her relax? A wasteful indulgence. The reusable shopping bags she forgot, again? Tsk, tsk.
Mom is like such a rebel. It takes the Klimate Kids to keep her on the right path…
“I have very, very environmentally conscious children — more so than me, I’m embarrassed to say,” said Ms. Ross, a social worker in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. “They’re on my case about getting a hybrid car. They want me to replace all the light bulbs in the house with energy-saving bulbs.”
The eco-kids want shutting in a small, unheated dark room…
They pore over garbage bins in search of errant recyclables. They lobby for solar panels. And, in a generational about-face, they turn off the lights after their parents leave empty rooms.
They hold their breath for minutes at a time so as not to expel too much carbon dioxide…
In Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, Jan Schmidt, a stay-at-home mother, and Mark Goetz, a professor of furniture design, have watched, amazed, as their 4-year-old son chastises them for letting the water run while they brush their teeth. “He’ll come over and turn it off and say, ‘Every day is Earth Day,’ ” Ms. Schmidt said.
Back in his small dark room he feels safe. The lights bring bogeyman and daymares…
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Posted: 14th, October 2008 | In: Anorak In New York, Global Warming Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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October 14th, 2008 at 1:29 am
This is what we want! Kids who care.
This has caused problems in the UK in families where the parents never have a ciggie or a can out of their hand.
Teachers have taught children how filthy cigarettes are for health and how much alcoholics cost the National Health Service - and the kids then go home and try to discuss it with parents who are breast-feeding their new-borns and then these parents will get irate and the kids will get a crack and then the kids will go out and buy a bottle of cider and a packet of ciggies and the whole cycle goes around and around.
It will be fun seeing just how the majority of UK parents will react to their kids telling them how to recycle all the fag packets and beer cans! Not to mention all the take-away wrappers and foils.
I wonder how many kids will be getting in trouble for that?
But I’m sure the US will get it right ……….
October 14th, 2008 at 12:43 am
Dear Jennifer, have you told your children how much energy their X-Box 360 or Playstation 3 consumes? Better yet, they really shouldn’t be watching any TV or using their mobile phones due o the amount of power required to run all those Phone masts.
When my son had to do a classroom talk on climate change, we coached him on the fallacies in the anthropogenic based global warming argument.
His resulting talk was not quite what the teacher was expecting