I was having a conversation with my eight year old last night, and I don't know what got into me, but I just felt like playing the "devil's advocate" to see what she would say. It seems in elementary schools these days, children are being taught that we all need to help save endangered animals and we all need to change our habits in order to stop the "climate crisis." At face value, I tend to agree that we should be good conservators of what we have been given here on earth, but I am starting to feel a little offended at the assumption of some of these folks who demand that certain animals be saved and that the weather patterns we are seeing now are somehow something we need to intervene in.

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