Climate change is a “major mental health threat” and “the psychological well-being of people around the world is increasingly at risk,” alarmists warn.
Global warming is “reshaping the physical world” and “causing serious mental health problems that threaten the well-being of millions of people around the world.” write Urviez Kakaria and Krupa Abraham in Longevity.
Researchers claim that people who experience extreme weather events caused by climate change, such as hurricanes, wildfires, floods and droughts, are “likely to suffer from anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)”. do.
The authors cite a global survey that found that “84% of young people aged 16 to 25 express concern about climate change, and nearly half report that climate change is having a negative impact on their daily lives.” , argue that vulnerable people are particularly at risk.
The writers don't seem to realize the irony of what they're writing. It is not a phenomenon of climate change, but rather climate change vigilanceor climate change syndromeAs other publications are beginning to acknowledge, it causes mental health problems.
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Young people who lack the critical capacity to question and resist the onslaught of climate crisis messages believe in doomsday scenarios and suffer deeply as a result.
When Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (New York), the youngest woman in history, was elected to Congress, say She told young people that “if we don't deal with climate change, the world will be destroyed in 12 years”, sparking fear-mongering among young people that has nothing to do with global warming and is irresponsible. .
Less than a year ago, former Vice President Al Gore claimed there was a mental health crisis around the world. That's because “young people are opening up to the fact that we still haven't solved the climate crisis or addressed some of the other challenges.”
Mr. Gore was right about the symptoms, but wrong about his diagnosis of the cause of the crisis, which Mr. Gore also implicates.
In 2019, daily telegraph As climate change alarmists spread fear of impending climate disaster, we report that 'environmental anxiety' is prevalent among children being treated for overwhelming fears of 'environmental catastrophe'. .
“Protests by groups such as Extinction Rebellion, recent fires in the Amazon and apocalyptic warnings from teenage activist Greta Thunberg are causing a 'tsunami' of young people seeking help.” said the paper. telegraphscience correspondent reported at that time.
Psychotherapist Caroline Hickman of the Climate Psychology Alliance (CPA) said: “This has escalated significantly this summer with many parents coming to therapy seeking support for their children.” said.
“Symptoms are the same [as clinical anxiety]the feeling is the same, but the cause is different,” she said. “The fear is that we will all die from environmental catastrophe.”
The upsurge in psychological trauma surrounding global warming is not surprising, as those concerned about climate change deliberately increase rhetoric about impending environmental doom.
As Breitbart News reported, activists studied people's emotional responses to language about climate and deliberately selected terms that evoked the strongest reactions.
In July 2018, the Berkeley, California City Council issued the following statement: solution Evoking memories of World War II, he called it “the greatest crisis in history” and declared a global “climate emergency.”
next month, salon The magazine announced that it was time to “panic” about climate change.
“It's time to panic about global warming.” I wrote salon Contributor Matthew Roza. “Indeed, a proper state of panic is long overdue.”
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of guardian famous in newspaper updated The official in-house style guide to enhance your climate change rhetoric.
“The term 'climate emergency, crisis, collapse' is preferred in place of 'climate change,' and 'global warming' is preferred in place of 'global warming,' although the original term is not prohibited. ”, the paper said. guardian said.
“For example, when scientists are talking about a catastrophe for humanity, the term 'climate change' sounds quite negative and benign,” says Katherine Viner. guardian” and a strong believer in the impending climate apocalypse.
“Climate scientists and organizations from the United Nations to the Met Office are increasingly changing their terminology and using stronger language to describe the situation we are in,” she said.
The Climate Psychology Alliance said some children complaining of environmental anxiety were being given psychiatric drugs. The group is now calling for environmental anxiety to be officially recognized as a psychological phenomenon.
But Ms Hickman said parents should learn to use gentler language when talking to children about global warming.
“What I don't want is for that child to say things like, “What's the point in going to university?'' or “What's the point in taking exams?'' and fall into a well of depression. I've heard people say that,” Hickman said.
Last summer, wall street journalAlicia Finley published an op-ed showing how climate change activists' over-the-top explanations for hot summer weather are “fueling delirium.”
It's not the weather itself that spreads panic, it's the exaggerated coverage, Finley I wroteBecause whereas in the past “heatwaves were treated as a normal part of summer,” they are now treated as harbingers of impending climate change.
Knowingly or unknowingly, mainstream media is complicit in spreading a “climate hypochondriac” that is simply out of sync with the reality of what's happening with the weather and the threats it may or may not pose, she said. insisted.
“It's not hard to notice that today's snowflakes perceive hot weather as abnormal, just as they perceive normal emotions such as anxiety and sadness,” Finley said. Ta. “But climate anxiety is not normal, despite claims by the left to the contrary.”
