Apparently some academics think the solution to climate change is having green kid-cops nudge, bug, and otherwise indoctrinate their parents on the subject. For example, David Uzzell, a professor of environmental psychology at the University of Surrey, has studied, with a favorable eye, what he calls “inter-generational learning through the transference of personal experience typically from the child to the parent / other adults / home.”

Fortunately, there are still some professors, such as Frank Furedi of the University of Kent, with the backbone to oppose what he calls “the normalization of the practice of socialization in reverse.” Bully for him for stating:

In previous times the practice of mobilizing children to police their parents’ behavior was confined to totalitarian societies. Authorities who attempted to harness youngsters’ simplistic views of good and evil are reminiscent of Orwell’s Big Brother.

Note: Professor Uzzell responds here.