WUWT reader “Newty” writes in a comment in response to the National Geographic scaremongering at 2013/11/05 at 12:38 pm
Seriously though I was terrified before I first started coming here. I’ve recently become a father and we did question bringing children into the world when the threat of global warming seemed so certain and so imminent.
I work with children and many of them are seriously anxious as a result of just this kind of article that sits in the school library.
It reminds me of how I worried about nuclear war years ago. Fear is damaging our young who should grow up with optimism and hope.
I couldn’t agree more, best wishes to you and to your family – Anthony
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I keep harping on this point: Stop scaring the children. It is stupid and debilitating, leading to nihilistic attitudes that can be very damaging.
Yep; as this recent German news report states about green alarmism, “Horror Scenarios Promote Depression”:
http://www.taz.de/Klimawandel-und-Psychologie/!126135/
Nice to hear Newty’s story.
Global Warming Hysteria is child abuse?
Yeah, there is a good book out there somewhere. A good book to soothe our anxieties. A good book with all the answers we need. What is that good book?
Oh, yeah, the Bible.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
(Frank Herbert’s DUNE, Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear)
Ignorance is the most powerful force in the Universe and, as entropy, is the death of the Universe.
Maybe it’s getting time for a civil suit against NGOs and other fear-mongering organizations. It’s not hard anymore to show that certain scientists have lied, and I’d expect a subpoena of Climate Action Network documents and minutes would show widespread collusion in planning to introduce fear-causing curriculum materials. There may indeed be a good, factual, and reasonable civil case here for knowing and deliberate psychological abuse of the young.
It is one thing to let the mainstream media (MSM) spout their scary stories.
To teach the same, is a failure on the part of our educational system.
Quote of the Week – ‘global warming fear is damaging our young’
Couldn’t agree more!
Perhaps this is what is meant ;
From P Gosselin’s skeptical and german NotricksZone blog
1st Nov
“Environmentalist Group BUND Releases Baby-Gassing Video…Shows Agriculture Gassing Field Of Babies With Chemical Pesticides!”
Or this from the same site;
23rd July
“Indoctrination At Schools In Germany Reaches New Level …Children Taught “Men Cause Climate Change” –
Or this again from NTZ
31st Oct
“Enviro-Psychologists Confirm Climate Alarmists Are Making Themselves Mentally Sick…”Doomer Depression”
When children are told lies by adults with ulterior goals they will almost certainly find out as they become adolescents or young adults that they were purposely manipulated and deceived. Then there will be countercultural attacks on those in the older generations that either deceived and manipulated them or those in the older generations that stood by silently and watched.
John
Those who embark on a course of deception and fear in order to maintain their personal beliefs and comfortable lifestyle must have no idea of the “ripples in a pond” effect of their insidious actions.
Let mighty shame be upon you all.
I used to be annoyed that my son would not always do what I said. Now I understand and am delighted that children are born with an innate distrust of their elders and that this is a necessary trait for the survival of our species. No doubt every generation has spread their share of garbage on their youth and the kids seem to do well at filtering it out… So all is not lost.
Alarm heads don’t care how much harm they cause to people because people don’t matter to them. All that matters to them is their dogma. As far as i’m concerned these guys are no better than the Catholic Church during the inquisition.
Peter says:
November 5, 2013 at 5:48 pm
I used to be annoyed that my son would not always do what I said. Now I understand and am delighted that children are born with an innate distrust of their elders and that this is a necessary trait for the survival of our species. No doubt every generation has spread their share of garbage on their youth and the kids seem to do well at filtering it out… So all is not lost.
Guess what Peter, you get to believe that….
This thread touches upon an aspect of the magnificent consciousness within us, which those like All Gore would subvert and suppress.
“He betrayed this country! He played on our fears.”.- Al Gore, ranting (projecting) about a political opponent
Let us not forget the atrocity advocated by the “10-10” maniacs:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a7e_1286142183
These people were actually advocating political genocide (in a very visual and blatant way) !
When informed of this, their spokeswoman actually said.
“Oh, well, you live and learn.”
They are that far out of touch with reality!
The greatest boon to AGW was the cessation of the cold war. Power seekers needed a new bogeyman, and they found it. To terrorize children, as bullies love to do.
Creating a climate of fear has clearly been a long term goal of the CACW advocates.
The Physicians for Social Responsibility says this; “Global warming is acknowledged by scientists around the world to be a reality and to be caused primarily by human activity, especially the burning of fossil fuels. As the earth warms, the delicate balance of climate, weather events and life is disrupted. Consequences emerge that threaten human health and, ultimately, survival.”
The National Wildlife Foundation printed a prime on how to create fear in children titled “The Psychological Effects of Global Warming on the United States:
“Having the reality of the destructive forces presented by climate change fully register
with people, so they will to act with the needed urgency, is indeed a challenge. And,
while the physical and environmental effects of global warming are studied and
described, what has rarely been addressed, and is as compelling a topic as any, are the
psychological impacts.
This report aims both to fill in the gap in our awareness of the psychological impacts
of climate change, and by exposing the emotional side of the issue, to find the place in
our hearts that mobilizes us to fly into action, forewarned, determined, relentless. It also
is a call for professionals in the mental health fields to focus on this, the social justice
issue of all times, with their capacity to work through denial and apathy, to bring insight
and commitment before it is too late.”
http://www.nwf.org/pdf/Reports/Psych_Effects_Climate_Change_Full_3_23.pdf
OT, Mann will be happy, his guy won in Virginia.
By their actions you shall know them.
The use of child soldiers, indoctrinating children to the state cause,manipulating childhood fears for profit.
CAGW follows in the loathsome footsteps of some of histories most notorious characters and fads.
But honestly, what does one expect from people who have a core belief that the sheer number of human being is the real calamity?
Secular Antihumanists?
It’s past time we all began referring to these alarmists as what they really are: climate change terrorists. Terrorists are people who terrorize or frighten others, particularly for political ends. The appellation fits climate change alarmists like a glove. I for one am tired of pussy-footing around with these terrorists, of the authorities letting them scare the hell out of vulnerable members of the civilian population, and of the media aiding them in their terrorism and generously supplying them the oxygen of publicity.
This post brings to mind a story from three years ago when a couple shot themselves and their young son and daughter out of fear of global warming. The parents and son died and the seven-month-old daughter survived.
A seven-month-old girl survived for three days alone with a bullet in her chest after being shot by her parents as part of a suicide pact over their fears about global warming.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/argentina/7344329/Baby-survives-parents-global-warming-suicide-pact.html
These people were victims of the fear instilled into ordinary people by the alarmists; a part of the ongoing collateral damage produced by climate change terrorism.
I used to be annoyed that my son would not always do what I said. Now I understand and am delighted that children are born with an innate distrust of their elders and that this is a necessary trait for the survival of our species. No doubt every generation has spread their share of garbage on their youth and the kids seem to do well at filtering it out… So all is not lost.
I could not agree more with this. Many of my right of center friends fear MOSLEMS. I take a longer view. Their system is based on a BRUTAL FAMILIAL CONTROL METHOD. As the world becomes MORE connected, there will be MORE AND MORE of their “youth” who rebel. I just pray to Baal, God, the devil…you name it… particularily in the USA, when the FIRST of the OPPRESSED defends themselves, violently and rightfully (i.e., FIGHTS back, “youth” against the “oppressing culture”…their RIGHT to do that (very AMERICAN) is completely upheld by the American justice system.
FORGET NOT that when the “Soviet Union” (dirty filthy swear words in my mind) fell apart in 2 years (1989 to 1990) Mother Russia found itself and 90 % of the Russians noted they BELIEVED NOT A WHIT of the <5% "ruling class". Bravo for rebelling and certain aspects of anarchy, which are needed to assure survival and progress.
Children are amazingly practical little beings and if their significant caregiver gives them genuine reason to trust that caregiver the child will listen to them to the exclusion of others.
One child who was very fond of me, and still is (he’s now 24), was being taunted by the two next door neighbor boys who were about his age. At the time Brian (not his real name) was 5 or 6 and had graduated from a tricycle and had just gotten new training wheels put on a two wheeler for him that very day. The neighbor boys were mocking Brian’s bike, calling it slow. Brian started crying and pleading that his bike was not slow. I came up to him and said, “Brian, I think they’re jealous. You’ve got nice, shiny, new training wheels on your bike and they don’t.” Voila, that was it, Bryan suddenly ignored their taunts.
Of course, nature being what it is, he didn’t always listen to me. His father and I love hot food and his father had a small garden where he was growing Habanero peppers. We both plucked one each, taking small bites and cooing in masochistic pleasure. Six year old Bryan saw this display of ecstasy, plucked a Habanero for himself and … immediately his father and I, screaming stereophonically, went, “No, no, no, no, no Bryan, you’re not gonna like…”
Too late.
If Michael Crichton were still alive, he would be able to add to this thread on fear.
His book ‘State of Fear’ was an epic expose of fear induced by radical environmental terrorists; including those of the climate catastrophe variety found in CAGW movements.
John
If you know ANYTHING about human history, you must realize this is ABSOLUTELY the greatest age in which to raise children. Anything before the 20th century was BRUTAL and SHORT. People have to learn their history and stop feeling guilty about modern conveniences.