The University of California (UC) San Diego has implemented a required program called Climate Change Education for all new students, irrespective of their chosen major.

Courses must cover at least 30% climate-related content and address two of four areas, including scientific foundations, human impacts, mitigation strategies and project-based learning. About 7,000 students from the class of 2028 will be affected this year.

“The most important thing is that UC San Diego wants to make sure we’re preparing students for the future that they really will encounter,” says Sarah Gille, a physical oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography who was part of the committee to create the new plan.

The requirement won’t add any time to a student’s graduation schedule – it’s designed to be integrated into existing classwork. Forty one-quarter courses meet the goal, including “The Astronomy of Climate Change”, “Gender and Climate Justice”, “Indigenous Approaches to Climate Change” and “Environmentalism in Arts and Media”. Many of the classes that fall under the climate requirement overlap with courses that focus on diversity, equity and inclusion, the school says.

Instead of guiding students on how to engage with science, UCSD plans to instruct them on what to believe. This is particularly troubling given that one of the country’s leading scientific institutions aims to instill in students the belief that the climate crisis is real rather than give them knowledge to make up their own minds.

Essentially, another higher educational institution has fallen to the cancer of the Left. This also evidenced by Nature advocating for inclusion by using season-neutral language in conference invitations, while also incorporating perspectives from Indigenous peoples.

What’s worse, another Nature article published earlier this month where the authors claim that women who applied for assistant professor roles in North America were more likely to receive job offers than men, attributing this to women’s alleged superior performance in job interviews.

Leftists tend to hire more individuals who share their views, believing theirs is the only valid perspective. Since 2000, universities have shifted significantly to the left, leading to the neglect of potentially talented men in biology as one of the many negative outcomes.

This will not end well.