Miseducation and Climate Change
Deep Background with Noah Feldman
Pushkin Industries
4.4 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Katie Worth, investigative reporter and author of the new book Miseducation: How Climate Change Is Taught in America, reviewed science textbooks from all fifty states and travelled the country interviewing teachers and students to compile a narrative about how climate change is being taught in American public schools.
She joins Noah to discuss the partisan divide in climate change education, the lobbying forces shaping curriculum around the country, and challenge of balancing students’ right to learn the facts with teachers’ values and opinions.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:08.7 | It's hard to read the news these days without asking yourself, how did we get here? |
| 0:13.8 | Fiasco is a history podcast for the co-creators of Slow Burn. |
| 0:17.6 | In our first season, Bush v. Gore, we examine an unmistakable turning point in American politics, the 2000 election, which resulted in a high-stakes stalemate, ended with one of the most controversial rulings in Supreme Court history. So if you're trying to make sense at the present moment, check out Fiasco, Bush v. Gore. Listen on theHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 0:42.3 | From Pushkin Industries, this is deep background, the show where we explore the stories behind the stories in the news. |
| 0:50.0 | I'm Noah Feldman. One of the stories that's most dominant in the news right now is climate change. |
| 0:57.2 | Behind the story of climate change, though, lies not just the underlying science, |
| 1:01.9 | but the question of who knows that science and how they learn it. |
| 1:06.4 | In particular, how is climate change or the absence of climate change, a story that some people |
| 1:12.6 | believe in, being taught in schools in the United States? A new book explores precisely that issue. |
| 1:22.6 | The author is Katie Worth, an investigative journalist who writes about science, politics, and their many |
| 1:28.4 | intersections. Her book is called Miseducation, how climate change is taught in America. It shows a number |
| 1:38.4 | of ways in which fossil fuel companies have influenced science education, and it also shows how the politics of many |
| 1:47.8 | teachers in the United States affect the way they teach climate science to their students. |
| 1:55.2 | The book is fascinating and significant and in many ways troubling, and I'm very pleased that Katie is here to discuss it with me today. |
| 2:10.1 | Katie, thank you so much for joining me. |
| 2:13.1 | We're going to talk about your fascinating new book, |
| 2:15.6 | Miseducation, how climate change is taught in |
| 2:18.4 | America. And I want to begin by asking you just to tell us your basic view of what is going on. |
| 2:26.9 | How is climate change being taught or not taught in America? Your title, Miseducation, gives away |
| 2:32.1 | something of your answer. Yeah, well, the short answer is that |
| 2:37.3 | there is a surprising amount of climate skepticism, climate denial being taught in public schools. |
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