Suffer the Little Children
…to drink Cool’s Kool-Aid
Posted on 07 May 25
by Tony Thomas
MAY 07 2025
The Cool.org parallel online universe in the school system makes clever use of films, videos and kids’ picture books to get an emotional response. Cool seems particularly concerned about rural resistance to giant turbines and thousands of kilometres of new transmission lines across paddocks and bush.
So teachers use a Cool template to show kids films with nice images and cute music where farmers rhapsodise about wind farms. Farmer Dimity Taylor runs sheep near Goulburn on NSW’s southern tablelands. A neighbour’s turbine is 1.2km from her farmhouse. She’s asked whether she’d prefer “cheaper, safer renewables” or “polluting fossil fuels and expensive, dangerous nuclear later on?” She answers, predictably, “Renewables, right now!”
For Part 1 and Part 11 of this series follow these links
She’s asked about “the giant, quiet neighbour [wind turbine] that is just ticking away and how it helps the community thrive”. She gushes, “I love living next door. It’s brought heaps of great stuff into the community. They fund all sorts of things, like the local pony club … that have really helped just invigorate the community.
“Yeah, yeah, [I have] three little kids. I love that we get to live right next door to this great infrastructure, and they get to feel like we’re kind of part of this exciting transition, and we can see action on climate change right here next door.”
Do she mind looking at the wind turbines?
https://cliscep.com/2025/05/07/suffer-the-little-children/
