California’s elementary and secondary schools have a huge physical footprint, covering 125,000 acres of ground and 730 million square feet of buildings. That means they’re prime spots for solar panels, batteries, heat pumps, electric buses and efficiency measures that can reduce the need for fossil fuels. The report estimates that K-12 public schools produce 9% of all carbon dioxide pollution from the state’s nonresidential buildings — not counting pollution from cars and buses going to and from schools.
Children, meanwhile, spend about 180 days a year on campus, playing, eating and learning — not to mention breathing.
[DS–nobody in the education establishment seems to care about teaching kids things like reading, writing and arithmatic. Why? It’s difficult, and there are metrics that can be used to determine success. So instead they focus on propaganda and scaring kids. That’s more fun, and you get to do field trips like protests and marches]
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