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"provider_name": "Action Network",
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"author_name": "Texas Freedom Network",
"author_url": "https://actionnetwork.org/users/texas-freedom-network/profile",
"title": "Remove climate change denial from textbooks",
"thumbnail_url": "https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/petitions/photos/000/008/194/normal/climate-horizontal-750.png",
"description": "In two weeks, students around the country could have textbooks that call into question the reality of climate change. Two of the biggest textbook publishers in the country — Pearson and McGraw-Hill Education — have proposed new social studies textbooks in Texas that include inaccurate and misleading information about climate change. Instead of learning the truth, a generation of students could be reading propaganda like this in their textbook: McGraw-Hill Education (World Cultures & Geography) – in a section pulled from a publication written by the Heartland Institute, students are told, "Scientists who study the issue say it is impossible to tell if the recent small warming trend is natural, a continuation of the planet’s recovery from the more recent 'Little Ice Age,' or unnatural, the result of human greenhouse gas emissions.' This goes against the 97% majority of published scientific papers that agree climate change is due to human activity. Pearson (Social Studies K-5) – Tells students, “Scientists disagree about what is causing climate change.” If those books are approved in Texas on November 21, climate-change denial could find its way into textbooks around the nation. Join with the National Center for Science Education and the Texas Freedom Network to Demand that Pearson and McGraw-Hill correct these problems.",
"url": "https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/remove-climate-change-denial-from-textbooks-teach-the-facts"
}