The Eco-Driven Decline of Science and Knowledge of Nature in Germany — "Ökoverblödung"

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Excerpting from an article by Pierre Gosselin at NoTricksZone, Meterologist Jörg Kachelmann writes in the Hannoversche Allgemeine:

It’s truly a drama: Today 80 to 90 percent of the weather stories in the German online media are false information or often freely made-up nonsense. My science has become a hoard of anarchy.”

He adds:

The absence of knowledge about nature allows every nonsense to be printed — in order to generate clicks — yet not be recognized as such.”

So why has the German citizenry become so weather-disinformed?

Kach[el]mann points to the educational system, where children are allowed to bypass natural science classes at schools. He comments at HAZ:

It is breathtaking what only a few decades and the allowance to skip school subjects can do to a country that, at least in folksongs, was long familiar with storms.”

The source. 

Pierre Gosselin concludes this article thus:

I’d have to say that the situation is in fact as bad, or even worse, in many other countries. The lack of knowledge in natural sciences make a society highly vulnerable to abuse by elite classes.

To which I offer the following comment here:

Pierre, you are absolutely right, I hate to say. 

Paradoxically, environmentalism has contributed significantly to the loss of sound knowledge about nature.

I call this "Ökoverblödung": personal concern for and contact with nature (including her conscientious study in theory and practice) is replaced by politically correct liturgy, the constant regurgitation of green stereotypical myths.

Instituting a new cultural paradigm, the greens have actually managed to substitute their false folklore about "nature" for science and an approach to nature guided by a critical, discerning, and knowledgeable mind.

Hence: "The absence of knowledge about nature allows every nonsense to be printed — in order to generate clicks — yet not be recognized as such." That's what I call die "Abrichtung des politischen Konsumenten", "the conditioning of the political consumer", making, as you observantly write, "society highly vulnerable to abuse by elite classes".

To which Pierre Gosselin replied:

Moreover they are unwittingly accomplishing the opposite of what they promised: paradise. Quite like how it worked out with socialism and communism.

See also The Epitome of Engineering Stupidity, and Überlegungen zur Abrichtung des politischen Konsumenten — der deutsche Öko-Wahn.