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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Oliver Milman

Videos denying climate science approved by Florida as state curriculum

Students eat their lunch in the cafeteria in Apollo Beach, Florida on 4 October 2019.
The animations will be allowed to be shown to children in kindergarten to fifth grade after being adopted by Florida’s department of education. Photograph: The Washington Post/Getty Images

Videos that compare climate activists to Nazis, portray solar and wind energy as environmentally ruinous and claim that current global heating is part of natural long-term cycles will be made available to young schoolchildren in Florida, after the state approved their use in its public school curriculum.

Slickly-made animations by the Prager University Foundation, a conservative group that produces materials on science, history, gender and other topics widely criticized as distorting the truth, will be allowed to be shown to children in kindergarten to fifth grade after being adopted by Florida’s department of education.

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