WHOSE CHILDREN? WHOSE TRUST?
Our Children’s Trust (OCT) is a nonprofit organization claiming it’s protecting the next generation from climate change. In reality, they are emotionally manipulating children by promoting climate hysteria to convince them to sign their names to lawsuits that push radical environmental mandates and dictate national energy policy.
In May, on behalf of 22 young people, several of whom were under 18 at the time of filing, OCT filed Lighthiser v. Trump challenging President Trump’s executive orders related to fossil fuels and energy, claiming violations of constitutional rights. OCT uses a narrative of climate hysteria, arguing “Plaintiffs were born into and now live in a destabilized climate system…” and “Every additional ton of GHG pollution and increment of heat Defendants cause will cause Olivia [a child plaintiff] more harm.”
EXPLOITING CHILDREN AS POLITICAL TOOLS
Not only does OCT use children to file radical climate lawsuits, but they also push activist materials aimed at indoctrinating kids into a particular set of beliefs about the environment. On its website, OCT provides course materials and educator resources to schools for free that push a specific climate agenda for teaching climate law as a form civic action. These resources include lesson plans tied to OCT court cases, lecture notes, slide decks, worksheets, activities, and role-playing modules.
Source: Our Children’s Trust
Source: Our Children’s Trust
OTC’s Chernaik v. Brown curriculum provides a brainstorming session that implies parents aren’t offering adequate protection for children.
Source: Our Children’s Trust
In other provided curriculum on Juliana v. U.S, OCT highlights the learning objectives of the unit along with questions to ask students. It’s no surprise this content is skewed to perpetuate climate anxiety.
Source: Our Children’s Trust
Source: Our Children’s Trust
Source: Facebook
One post cites OCT’s alleged “expert” in Genesis v. EPA saying, “even children who have not directly experienced climate-related trauma increasingly experience impairing distress in the setting of exposure to climate change…”
Source: @Youthvgov
Another post claimed that the “climate crisis” is significantly increasing the mental health of youth and contributing to “eco-anxiety, climate grief, trauma and depression,” among other factors. “Our youngest generations are grappling with a crisis of a magnitude that no adult today ever experienced at a young age,” claimed the video narrator.
Source: Instagram
OCT also partners with community groups to promote climate activism. OCT’s website features a drop-down menu which offers numerous ways for businesses, community groups, or individuals to join the movement including: joining their community, donating, and taking action.
OCT also partners with groups receiving taxpayer dollars including the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, a partly taxpayer-funded event held on the National Mall, where youth-plaintiffs share their advocacy stories to garner support for the movement.
Source: Our Children’s Trust
PARENTAL AUTHORITY
Parents should be able to trust that organizations catering services and educational curriculum to kids will consider and value parental input and authority. OCT, however, offers limited options for parental involvement.
Under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), organizations that collect data about children under 13 must offer clear disclosures and obtain verifiable parental consent before using that information. There is no clear evidence OCT complies with federal law in regards to online safety for kids.
OCT collects personal data about minors through its New Client Interest Form, which asks for personal information, including names, contact information, and details about a child’s interest in joining a lawsuit. A parent or guardian fills out a secondary form after their child has already expressed interest in the organization.
Source: Our Children’s Trust
TIPS FOR PARENTS
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Thanks for reading the latest edition of the American Parents Coalition’s The Lookout. If you have a troubling story to share about a school, doctor, company, or other institution working to usurp parents’ rights, please let us know by emailing us at outreach@americanparentscoalition.org.
