• Kittybeer
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    1 year ago

    Because money. Texas is a big oil producing state and guess what is a major contributor to climate change? The theory is if you don’t teach kids the correlation they will think oil is good.

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      1 year ago

      Yep. It even points that out in the linked article.

      Among the reasons the board rejected books: They had too much information about the climate crisis; they were published by companies with environmentally friendly policies; they portrayed fossil fuel use in an insufficiently positive light, potentially harming the state’s economy; and they included teachings about evolution but not creationism.

      *emphasis mine.