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NPR: Climate Change Anxiety Driving Debilitating Psychological Disorders
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h/t John Garrett; According to Princeton psychology professor Elke Weber, lots of people are popping pills to cope with climate anxiety, and more people should raise the issue at Thanksgiving – they will discover their entire family wants climate action.

    Coping With The Reality Of Climate Change

    August 12, 20214:25 PM ET
    Heard on  All Things Considered

    NPR’s Audie Cornish speaks with psychologist Elke Weber about the way individuals deal with the threat of climate change.

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    CORNISH: Increasingly, people are dealing directly with the results of climate change – right? – record heat across the country. How do people respond when they’re confronted with the sort of bigness of the issue of climate change? What kinds of emotions can that draw out?

    WEBER: It can be incredibly overwhelming, especially among younger people. And so there’s no question that climate anxiety has gone drastically up by contemplation about sort of what kind of world we live in and what kind of a world we might leave to our children and grandchildren. So it’s very debilitating symptoms that oftentimes have to be treated with medication or with psychotherapy.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/08/14/npr-climate-change-anxiety-driving-major-psychological-disorders/

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And it's climatatistas like NPR that are driving it. *look*

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After 40 years of parading around the airwaves with virtual sandwich boards proclaiming "the world is going to end today!" , it just might get to some folks. The rest of us just dismiss that constant drumbeat of impending doom, at least until some remarkably stupid policy come along, which is almost as often as the world is supposed to have ended.

Are the coastal cities under water?  NOPE

Are we all being ripped apart by an unending procession of severer storms? Uh-uh.(There have always been nasty storms, the skyrocketing dollar amounts rely on what was a 30K house being 300K or more now.)

The air is cleaner (if you don't count CO2 as a "pollutant"--which it isn't, its a respiration product that doubles as plant food--you don't get more renewable than that)

Water (with a couple local exceptions) is cleaner.

Cars emit less unburned hydrocarbon into the atmosphere due to emissions systems that rely on fuel injection computer metered for the air intake, density, etc.

What can be recycled, in an environmentally and economically friendly fashion, is, especially metals which are environmentally intensive to mine and refine from ore.

Drilling for and producing hydrocarbons is far more efficient, with smaller surface environmental footprints and enhanced reclamation rules for P&A wells.

Utilization of other "fossil" fuels is cleaner than ever.

While there are some notable polluters out there, the US isn't it, and our policy should reflect that instead of constantly moving the goalposts.

While some summers are warmer than others, people aren't melting in their tracks and bursting into flame.

None of the prophesies of doom have been fulfilled.

Biblical prophets were required to bat 1.000, the Climate harpies have yet to get a prediction right.
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Some people, particularly young folks, are driven by doom messages. My son came home from school and told me all the calamities that would befall us in 5 years. That was 7 years ago. None of it happened. But they still believe it because the bad kids don't believe it. It's like a type of bullying. Anyone who disagrees gets attacked. So much for "Be kind".

I think people are anxious because they want to be anxious
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Thousands of years ago the ice was a mile thick covering America. How did man melt that? Camp fires?

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Some people, particularly young folks, are driven by doom messages. My son came home from school and told me all the calamities that would befall us in 5 years. That was 7 years ago. None of it happened. But they still believe it because the bad kids don't believe it. It's like a type of bullying. Anyone who disagrees gets attacked. So much for "Be kind".

I think people are anxious because they want to be anxious

Have you sat your son down and pointed out to him that (a) none of the aforementioned calamities has in fact occurred, therefore that (b) he was most likely lied to, and (c) on that basis, how confident can be be that he's not being lied to now?

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Wish the communist leaning NPR would do a run down on algore's apocalyptic climate predictions he made about 20 years ago.

I guess that is too much to ask,  /s
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Some people, particularly young folks, are driven by doom messages. My son came home from school and told me all the calamities that would befall us in 5 years. That was 7 years ago. None of it happened. But they still believe it because the bad kids don't believe it. It's like a type of bullying. Anyone who disagrees gets attacked. So much for "Be kind".

I think people are anxious because they want to be anxious
Mass hysteria has an attraction all its own. I don't pretend to know why, but virtually any media that depict the future produced in the last 20 years shows a dystopian future, played out amongst the ruins of our former glory as humans.  I seem to recall when Science Fiction had a hopeful note and wasn't all shot in garbage dumps and industrial ruins. But apocalypse sells, human conflict having been a constant since Cain and Abel, and people would get bored without "pew pew-pew, pew" in the soundtrack...

maybe it is an absolution from the pressure to build bigger and better, to generally accept our species' demise.
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"CDS":
Climate derangement syndrome...