What better way to drum up business than to create a whole new class of psychological affliction?
Climate Depot reports: Weather Channel hypes report claiming ‘Climate Change Will Mean More Stress, Anxiety, PTSD in the Future’ – Growing ‘substance abuse’ due to AGW – Expect ‘broad psychological impacts’
This is based on a new report, “Beyond Storms and Droughts: The Psychological Impacts of Climate Change,” by the American Psychological Association and ecoAmerica, an environmental advocacy group devoted to climate change and sustainability issues.
That means a future with heightened levels of stress, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder and depression, as well as a loss of community identity – if nothing is done to stop or slow emissions of industrial-produced greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
“The striking thing is how these effects will permeate so many aspects of our daily lives,” said Dr. Norman B. Anderson, CEO of the American Psychological Association, in a press release announcing the report.
“We can also expect increases in long-term stress and anxiety from the aftermath of disasters, as well as increases in violence and crime rates as a result of higher temperatures or competition for scarce resources.”
Due to global warming, ‘expect more’: ‘Substance abuse, Mental health emergencies, People experiencing “solastalgia“: (felt when suddenly dislocated from their home), Loss of autonomy and personal identity.’
Full Weather Channel report here
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I already experience this. I woke up a few months back and decided Id go for a drive for fun. It went from a bright blue sky to overcast within minutes. There was a small flash flood down the road. I have no doubt I caused this. I made mother angry. I did 15 hail micheal manns for my crimes, and I am afraid to go outside, I dont want to contaminate the world with my humanness anymore.
New Reality(?) Show?
Keeping up with the Psychiatrists?
Number Of Ways To Go Nuts To Increase: DSM-V
http://wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=4349
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
As an ex-psychologist I apologize for the loonies who now appear to inhabit the profession (I guess that term could be loosely applied). Thank heavens I have retired! DSMVI really does need to include the delusional thinking Emperors New Clothes syndrome but I fear it won’t.
The Psychological Effects of Global Warming on the United States
And Why the U.S. Mental Health Care
System Is Not Adequately Prepared
http://tinyurl.com/chbh6m5
National Wildlife Federation Climate Education Program
With Support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Pathologising dissent? Now that’s Orwellian
Ahead of a conference on the psychology of climate change denial, Brendan O’Neill says green authoritarians are treating debate as a disorder
http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/6320
Climate change denial is a mental disorder
Ethan Greenhart, author of Can I Recycle My Granny?, scraps with spiked over the recession, breastfeeding and ‘anti-science speech crimes
Brendan O’Neill: Ethan, there’s a recession looming. People are worried about their jobs and homes. They’re fretting over the money in their bank accounts. Yet in your new book, you have a chapter on ‘mosquito rights’ and whether it is ethical to send bed nets to Africa! Doesn’t this show how petty environmentalism is, even how anti-human it is? You’re having a laugh, right?
Ethan Greenhart: I never have a laugh. And if you got as far as the chapter titled ‘Is it ethical to laugh?’ you would know that. Look, nothing better sums up the need for my brand of environmentalism – what I refer to in the book as my zero-carbon, no-driving, faeces-recycling lifestyle – than the current credit crunch. Who do you think brought about this recession? It wasn’t mosquitoes. They live admirably sustainable lives on the rumps of hippos and hyenas. It was human beings – overweight, overdressed, overrated human beings and their insatiable lust for new-fangled mod cons, like smoothie makers or life-support machines.
BON: You’re not seriously saying mosquitoes are ‘better’ than mankind. Any notion of ‘mosquito rights’ seems deeply misanthropic to me.
EG: Is this a set-up? Are you deliberately trying to embarrass me? I do not talk about ‘mosquito rights’ in my book. I talk about the rights of disease.
http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/5826
Mental Illness To Increase Due To Climate Change
http://wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=4295
My wife is a Psychologist in private practice and has observed (anecdotally) an increasing trend amongst her patients’ self-reported anxiety over a number of common recurring themes in the news media. (Take your pick…climate change, honey bees disappearing, gun violence, etc). Greg Goodman’s comments above hit the nail on the head. The root of the problem is the anxiety that the media creates through its breathless, the apocalypse is imminent, “except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish,” style of reporting. A Psychologist’s term for this is called catastrophizing – which is considered a cognitive distortion, i.e., something that is treatable.
What truly makes me sad about this is that I held out hope that Psychology might be the field that would eventually shed some light on why humans, by default, have an unquenchable thirst for thinking about all things that will certainly kill ALL of us soon. Why that in all likelihood is not the case and why we are on a societal level catastrophizing. Clearly, I am delusional.
Instead we get examples like the article above and this article – also from the APA:
http://www.apa.org/research/action/speaking-of-psychology/climate-change.aspx
There are some mind-numbing quotes in here. See if you can find the bang-your-forehead onto your desk statements within these:
• “The first is that there aren’t that many people who really deny climate change. It’s about five percent of our country doesn’t think it’s possible…. I mean, eight percent of America thinks Elvis is still alive.”
• “The Wildlife Conservation Society in New York City, and we found that in our meetings there was a very elevated sense of concern, almost what looked like panic in some conversations.
• “…People see the world around them changing and leaving them”
• “When you know the facts. When you can see the evidence, it is distressing.”
• “And when you think people around you don’t believe you, you self-edit because the emotional labor that goes into doing that work is difficult.”
Lastly, be on the lookout for more language like Environmental Justice to pop into the news media more over the coming months. Psychologists that are still in academia love, love, love talking about inequity and justice. I suspect that this will be next tool to silence anyone skeptical of the claims regarding AGW. “What? You don’t care about environmental justice? “
Reblogged this on CraigM350 and commented:
Somehow I think the trauma/distress of choosing between heating or eating will be a more pressing concern. Not to mention the increased anxiety and stress levels caused by various climate morons in the media freaking out over the weather and telling us anything outside of their narrow Goldilocks fantasy of climate is ‘unprecedented’. FUD.
As someone mentioned above, how come the people in the tropics are not thoroughly bat s**t crazy by now worrying about rising seas flooding their islands and broiling people alive?
If anything the people who know CAGW is a hoax are the very ones who are NOT at all concerned and live a happier life – like these people:
http://www.tahitibycarl.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ICmoanatth.jpg
Thanks for the fix mod, yes the movie “The Thing”.
Cheers.
Global Warming is sapping and impurifying my personal identity.