Amazingly, this was the top headline for the Denver Post web edition for smartphone browsers, above a wackjob trying to kill a former president and current contender. It just goes to show how much sway the climate cult has in the Credentialed Media
Chainsaws buzzed as members of a saw crew cut down an invasive Russian olive tree that had been sucking precious water and nutrients from the High Line Canal in Aurora.
The crew members are some of the first participants in the new American Climate Corps — a federal effort by the Biden administration to put young people to work to address the effects of climate change. In its first year, nearly 900 corps positions are based in Colorado.
None in the crew of 18- to 24-year-olds, who are employed by Mile High Youth Corps, had wielded chainsaws before this summer. That didn’t deter 21-year-old crew leader Alex Dills. He joined the corps because he wanted a job where he could work outside on parks and trails before completing his degree in economics and math at the University of Denver, and then working a desk job.
“I get to go out and make a tangible difference,” Dills said.
How dare trees that suck carbon pollution from the air grow! Anyhow, it’s a cute way to give young climate cultists federal pay, indoctrinate them more, and make sure they stay Democrat voters. How soon till the ACC is unionized?
The American Climate Corps aims to employ 20,000 young people nationwide to tackle a range of projects, including forest management, building weatherization and educating people about sustainability.
It will be interesting to see if they actually do the projects, forest management (how well has that worked out in Leftist California?), and weatherization, or, if it is mostly indoctrination of other Comrades, especially young children.
Many of the current American Climate Corps openings in Colorado are on the Front Range, with more than half of job postings based in Denver. Other positions are based in Hotchkiss, Hesperus and Jamestown.
The job duties vary widely, from helping Denver students become more environmentally literate to a six-month program learning climate-resilient farming techniques in southwest Colorado.
Yup, indoctrinating kids. I have to wonder how many of the youts involved actually want to learn farming. They most likely feel that they are too well educated and fill of class to be farming.
So… just like Americorps and Peace Corps.
My Dad worked for the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) back in the 40s. They actually did useful work, like cutting trees in areas that were to become lakes. The CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) also dis a lot of good work. They replanted forests that had been clear cut during Michigan’s lumber boom. It’s still possible to see places they worked as they planted trees in straight lines like crops. A lot of the log structures in our parks were built by the CCC,
Of course, these bozoids, being run by woke leftists will do nothing useful at all.
CCC is also credited with much of the construction of the Appalachian trail through Shenandoah National Park. LOTS of stonework demonstrating enormous back-breaking labor over rough terrain, during cold winters and hot humid summers. No power tools and everything carried in by hand. Also, the CCC was made up of skilled workmen in many trades and professions who had no other options and needed to bring in an income. Nothing like the unskilled pampered youths in Americorps, Peace Corps and Climate Corps. All of those should be zero balanced on their budgets next year. After all, don’t we have the lowest unemployment rate ever? Isn’t that the best time to cut make-work government programs to make laborers available for free market employment?