Adapted from Republic 13.10.2008 ...
A moment of distraction, leaving open the tap while brushing your teeth, the light still burning in the room from where you exited, and the little environmentalist is ready to rebuke him. "Eco-Kids", they call them in the United States, children are brought up with the fear that water will soon end and that the production of electricity threatens the health of the world, infants-guardians of the future of humanity. I am so aware of the environmental emergency to hear even the most attentive parent and an inveterate polluter are, above all, capable of directing choices and consumption the whole family.
A lesson learned too well. The developmental psychology calls it hyper-regularization: the same mechanism is that when children learn some grammar rules to apply rigorously in all cases, as when the past participle of "break" to "break". Here, in some cases we have the right to "break" with that they look disgusted by pedants with newspapers piled up in the house and exclaim, "how much paper wasted!" and the diligence with which remind us that the TV goes off because the red light consumes electricity.
The merit-fault of the school, which organizes activities in environmental education centers and a curricular Science sustainable development and renewable energy. No wonder, therefore, whether the nephew of eight years even preaches that the ozone hole has widened again in 2007 but has not returned to the size of the dreadful 2005. Moreover, it is the same child who read with enthusiasm last year Papersera, insert Mickey Mouse did as a real newspaper and sponsored by Eni. Pippo envoy taught concepts like "global warming" and "climate change" and gave tips on how to save energy with small steps daily. The young environmentalists see cartoons like Over the Hedge and eagerly awaiting the release of the Pixar movie, Wall-E, ecological parable of a planet so polluted that it should be abandoned. And then bring what they learn in everyday life, with its uncompromising simplicity of their age.
an attractive market. The availability of more young people to take on the health of the world has also noticed the marketing, so now to sell a product is worthwhile to note the reduced environmental impact and the results are immediately evident. Some people report that the child agrees to be washing your hair only with that particular shampoo "that respects the environment" and who put the tuna in the sandwich has been asked by the teenage son if he was sure that he had been caught in compliance with the dolphins . In recent days
U.S. newspaper the New York Times complained that many parents feel under pressure because the environmental choices of the children require them to spend more. Exasperated mothers told of having to change all bulbs at home to adopt energy-efficient ones and others that it could not pass by a roof with solar panels without feeling constantly ask to leave as soon as the heating system to move polluting to solar. "My son asked us to buy a car with hydrogen - was the tale of one of the parents surveyed - and said he would not ever go up on an SUV."
In the U.S., the nation that contributes more to the world's carbon dioxide emissions and that is more resistance in setting limits in this regard, the insistence of the "eco-kids" gave off a series of criticisms of the school system. There is in fact those who argue that children are becoming fundamentalist ecology and you lose too much time on environmental matters and leave out the most important. Accused are also finished the badges used on some school uniforms to indicate that students participating in groups for the "environmental health", the "Pact for the Earth 'or the' Action for the planet." In Italy's "eco-kids" are still poorly organized and classified, but fortunately they can already be heard by adults.
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