The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) has spurned 50,000 free DVDs
of Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" and is squandering a golden opportunity
to educate tens of millions of youth in the United States! Why? This 55,000-member
organization of teachers and scientists could use Al Gore's film to orchestrate
the single most influential educational goal in human history: the awareness
and subsequent solving of climate change. There is no denying the escalating
list of climate change evidence: from the potential extinction of polar bears
and retreating glacial environments to the increase of global temperatures in
unison with increased carbon dioxide levels.
It is not too late for Gerald Wheeler and the NSTA to find the courage and
educational moral high ground by accepting those 50,000 free DVDs sitting in
an LA warehouse. If you are a teacher, student, parent or citizen: please email
Gerald Wheeler at gwheeler@nsta.org and tell him that the special interest that
would benefit from those DVDs would be our children! Ask the NSTA via Mr. Wheeler
to reconsider their alliances with the American Petroleum Institute, ExxonMobil
and Project Learning Tree. How can it be educationally sound to allow big industry
at your conferences and receive your "education awards" but not to
discuss climate change? Find the emails to your favorite "Big Green organization"
(from the Sierra Club to Audubon to Defenders of Wildlife) and ask them: "Why
aren't you in the schools giving out sound, ecological data and why aren't you
at the NSTA conferences?"
clipped from: www.truthout.org