You tirade has some valid points. But you are connecting dots that are not within a reasonable distance.

And:: many millions more were killed in the two conflicts.

Wow. So much vitriol.

I agree that children should not be led by teachers to political protests.

I disagree on the idea that one cannot be against the pipeline & for pay increases, as if that is the only way funds can be gathered.

I can tell you that if those pipe lines burst once too often you will not have to worry about anything at all.

From what I've seen of movement of children demonstrating for meaningful policy change to ward off pending climate doom, it is an organic movement driven by the kids themselves and often very much discomfiting to their supposed "indoctrinators". On Twitter, I follow @GretaThunberg, the Swedish 16 year old behind much of this, and think she is a remarkable and incredibly articulate and persuasive young lady. People like her give me hope for the world.

I would imagine kids like her would say that the facile rationalization that "we might as well do it because if we don't, someone else will, and besides, we need the money" does not make it a good moral choice or even a choice in our rational self-interest.

I'm not familiar with the particular labor dispute you cite but it's been my observation that the reason societies don't respect teachers and what they do enough to pay them well has nothing to do with lack of shale oil money.

On a basic level I agree with you, however Matias is a guy I greatly admire. Please don’t associate him with the Holocaust. We need his input IMO.

Indoctrination and teaching seem to be, though related, essentially different in intent. I am trying unsuccesssfully to understand what might be wrong with teaching childen to learn to protect the environment, thus the planet from which they derive their very lives. Be damned with the tax revenues and job losses if that is a price we to preserve what allows us to remain a species on this earth. Other industries have come and gone over the centuries, and we have somehow survived, reinventing ourselves. No job is destined to remain indefinitely, so get used to that. Learning to be good stewards of the earth does not seem to be to be a bad thing for children to learn; trying to preserve and keep intact an industry that is ruining same, on the other hand, seems an infinitely poor lesson for them to learn. If we are to continue and do so in relative good health and so on, we must ALL learn to forgo the tendency to want to maintain the goal of increasing and maintaining economic largesse at the expense of human concerns. Profits be damned if it means ruining our environment, and if you cannot understand that then you are, s some say, a part of the problem not the solution. Hows that for a bit of intelligence!

I didn't read the post your referencing, so forgive me if I cover something addressed there.

To me the teachers were earning above their pay by showing their students that getting involved can shape policy and that their voice matters. We'd call that civics down here, which needs to be taught a lot more throughout the educational process. Comparing this to Nazi indoctonazation is pretty egregious IMO.

Not sure how BC pays their teachers, but in the US it's a whole separate revenue stream from oil pipelines, and if it's also that way up there than your being less than honest about how to pay them and the economic benefits from said pipeline.

Pipelines are also fairly hard on the environment, and can do an awful lot of damage if not designed and maintained properly.

Also, if you want people to listen to you quit taking potshots just because you don't like what they said. As far as I can tell you've said a few stupid things yourself.