{"id":44560,"date":"2019-03-18T08:30:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T13:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44560"},"modified":"2019-03-18T08:30:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T13:30:13","slug":"why-we-should-not-be-surprised-that-murdoch-tabloids-favorite-sydney-school-pupil-didnt-join-climate-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44560","title":{"rendered":"Why We Should Not Be Surprised That Murdoch Tabloid’s Favorite Sydney School Pupil Didn’t Join Climate Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Why We Should Not Be Surprised That Murdoch Tabloid’s Favorite Sydney School Pupil Didn’t Join Climate Strike<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
\"Student<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Somewhere in the order of 150,000 students<\/a> went absent from classes in Australia on Friday afternoon for the global \u201cSchool Strike 4 Climate\u201d marches<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In what might be seen as an afternoon practical lesson in democracy, free speech, and civic engagement, students from cities and towns across the country and the world marched, chanted, and held placards aloft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the biggest marches in Australia saw 25,000 students on the streets of Sydney, the home of the Rupert Murdoch-owned The Daily Telegraph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But one student in particular caught eye of The Daily Telegraph \u2014 a 17-year-old, Year 12 pupil called Joanne Tran, who wrote an article for the newspaper explaining why she would not be marching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Real\u00a0Motives?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Australia\u2019s Education Minister Dan Tehan described the march as \u201cappalling political manipulation\u201d and said parents needed to know \u201cwho is influencing their kids, what are their real motives and who is paying for it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Good advice, no doubt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an articulate column<\/a>, Tran argued her fellow pupils were \u201cperfect political pawns for activists and their agendas\u201d and that the website for the School Strike 4 Climate campaign was being run by \u201cadults who came from partisan backgrounds.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tran said she had learned in economics class that coal, iron ore, and gas were essential for the country\u2019s prosperity and her mates would be better off staying in school to learn about \u201cthe importance of the mining sector to Australian life and its contribution to the world.\u201d Clearly, her economics class hasn’t covered this study in the scientific journal Nature<\/a> finding that global warming of 2.5\u00b0C to 3\u00b0C by the end of the century would likely see a drop in per capita economic output of between 15 and 20 percent globally. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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