If we can get kids talking about conservation and doing it, they can have a great influence on their parents by lecturing them and pointing the finger.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If we want children to learn to tend the land and nourish themselves and have conversations at the table, we need to communicate with them in ways that are positive.
It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing.
Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward. I am against conservation. We should let young people move forward, whether we agree with them or not. We should let new things happen.
We have to prove to the disinherited majority of the world that ecology and conservation will not work against their interest but will bring an improvement in their lives.
Kids will not listen to that. They're going to experiment no matter what, so you have to be honest.
I think parents should be able to teach their kids what their faith says, what science says.
The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.
If children have an interest in nature, they will understand. I want them to become people who appreciate the consequences the next generation will suffer if we destroy our natural surroundings. So without a doubt, they need to learn that nature is vital to us by experiencing it. I want them to like nature and to climb mountains and so on.
We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
I travel all over the country speaking to young people, and I am always amazed at how engaged in environmental conservation they are.