Cenk Uygur
@TheYoungTurks·6.5M subscribers·72.8K videos
Teaching Climate Change Denial in Schools Pushed in 3 States
Posted
February 1, 2013
Views
42,679
Likes
1,188
Comments
998
Engagement
5.12%
February 1, 2013
42,679
1,188
998
5.12%
Every word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
5:14Now Playing"The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) — known by its critics as a "corporate bill mill" — has hit the ground running in 2013, pushing "models bills" mandating the teaching of climate change denial in public school systems.
January hasn't even ended, yet ALEC has already planted its "Environmental Literacy Improvement Act," which mandates a "balanced" teaching of climate science in K-12 classrooms, in the state legislatures of Oklahoma, Colorado, and Arizona so far this year. "*
ALEC wants to mandate that climate change denial be taught in public school science classes. Is this legalized religious lessons? Who is benefited by these bills, and who will suffer? Ana Kasparian and Desi Doyen break it down.
*Read more from Steve Horn/ Policy Mic:
Support The Young Turks by Subscribing
Like Us on Facebook:
Follow Us on Twitter
Buy TYT Merch
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.
