Submission by Kathleen Marquardt, American Policy Center

Sound science, sound environmentalism, and sound governance have been missing for decades. We must pray that none are truly dead. Tragically, many people around the world have died because of fake science, anti-human environmentalism, and the dismantling of our republic. Our constitutional form of government has long been replaced by an unaccountable administrative state—thanks to globalists intent on controlling the world.

Although these areas have been under assault for more than a century, it was in 1992 that science, environmentalism, and governance became the primary tools to achieve one-world government under the United Nations. The Wildlands Project and the Biodiversity Treaty—part of Agenda 21—spelled out exactly what was in store for the United States and the world. The U.S. is the key domino; if we fall, others will follow.

The Undermining of Sound Science

Sound science has been eroded from the beginning, but the biggest blow came with the global warming narrative. The initial study—authored by leading climate scientists—concluded that there was no significant global warming. But that conclusion didn’t serve the global agenda. So the United Nations scientists stepped in to revise the report. The second version, which claimed urgent catastrophe unless carbon dioxide—the very sustenance of plant life—was curtailed, prompted several ethical scientists to request the removal of their names. What does that say about those who remained?

Wind turbines in our oceans kill whales and other marine life. These turbines have short lifespans and often end up abandoned. According to AI analysis, when turbines reach the end of their operational lives, they are dismantled. While components like the steel tower and copper wiring can be recycled, the fiberglass blades usually end up in landfills.

For more than 30 years, sound scientists like Marc Morano, Paul Driessen, the late F. Fred Singer, and many others have written books and articles, given speeches, and appeared at climate conferences to share the truth. But the mainstream media and the political establishment ignored and ridiculed them.

Only recently have we begun to see sound science influence policy again—rather than the politicized “science” that led to faulty, wasteful, and dangerous policies, such as wind and solar energy and carbon capture schemes. Unfortunately, progress is slower than many of us had hoped. Wind and solar power provide minimal energy at enormous cost. Wind turbines kill countless birds, including protected species like eagles. Solar farms consume thousands of acres of land, and one hailstorm can render them useless while leaking chemicals into the ground from shattered panels.

The Attack on Reason

Reason, as defined by Merriam-Webster, is “the power of intelligent and dispassionate thought, or of conduct influenced by such thought.” Yet the Frankfurt School and its modern ideological descendants have worked to redefine reason along Marxist lines, particularly in early education.

One rarely cited figure in this movement is Mary Parker Follett. In her book The New State, she outlines a vision where traditional ideas of citizenship and individual conscience are replaced by collectivist ideals. She writes:

“The training for the new democracy must be from the cradle—through nursery, school and play, and on through every activity of our lives… Citizenship is to be acquired only through modes of living and acting which shall teach us how to grow social consciousness.”

Follett believed there is no such thing as individual conscience:

“We can have no true moral judgment except as we live our lives with others. Our individual conscience must be incorporated in a national conscience as one of its constituent members.”

And on nationalism and individual rights:

“National rights are as obsolete as the individual rights of the last century… Sovereign nations are a legal fiction.”

Her ideas form the blueprint for what is—and isn’t—taught to our children today.

Undermining Family, Faith, and Sovereignty

Chester M. Pierce, a Harvard psychiatrist and education reformer, once said:

“Every child in America entering school at the age of five is mentally ill because he comes to school with certain allegiances—to our Founding Fathers, to elected officials, to his parents, to a belief in a supernatural being, and to the sovereignty of this nation. It’s up to you as teachers to make all these sick children well by creating the international child of the future.”

Brock Chisholm, the first Secretary-General of the World Health Organization, echoed this sentiment:

“To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family tradition, national patriotism, and religious dogmas.”

Chisholm viewed traditional beliefs as dangerous impediments to global unity:

“We have swallowed all manner of poisonous certainties fed us by our parents, our Sunday and day school teachers, our politicians, our priests… Morality, salvation, and loyalty have crippled free thought and stunted human potential.”

The War on Common Sense

Today’s education policies often abandon the basics—reading, writing, and arithmetic—in favor of ideological indoctrination. The same forces that distort science also seek to erase common sense.

Merriam-Webster defines common sense as “sound, practical judgment independent of specialized knowledge.” Yet under the heading The Goal of Science Education, Marxist educators write:

“By giving students a flavor of how biases and intuitions have distorted reasoning in the past, they will learn to appreciate that common sense is extremely unreliable… Intuitive essentialism leads to race pseudoscience, creationism, and other distortions.”

In other words, they aim to train children to distrust their own judgment—and accept only the worldview they are taught.

But we are beginning to see pushback. Ordinary people—those harmed by reckless policies, whose homes and health have been affected—are reclaiming their voices. They are applying real-world experience and common sense in defiance of the bureaucrats, ideologues, and globalists who claim to know best.