Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to Gizmodo, Carbon Emission Trading is one of the five stages of grief.
“The interplay between the climate realities we likely face and the potential psychological fallout from them was the subject of a conference convened in Washington D.C., in March 2009,” write Lise van Susteren, MD, and Kevin J. Doyle, JD, introducing their work. “A highly respected group of experts offered insights. Their thoughts, recommendations and supporting evidence are presented in this report.”
“The Psychological Effects of Global Warming on the United States,” examines the hitherto undiscussed effects of increasingly prevalent extreme weather, sea level rise, drought and other impacts of climate change on mental health. How will we cope with a changing world?
“The incidences of mental and social disorders will rise steeply. These will include depressive and anxiety disorders, post traumatic stress disorders, substance abuse, suicides, and widespread outbreaks of violence. Children, the poor, the elderly, and those with existing mental health disorders are especially vulnerable and will be hardest hit.”
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The report’s findings are the subject of the first episode of Bill Nye’s new show, “Global Meltdown.”
He compares our gradual acceptance of the realities of global warming to the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.
Denial and anger we see every day, in our politics. Bargaining we see with carbon emissions trading. Depression has become a well known problem for climate scientists. Acceptance? That’s where we need to be so that we can do something about climate change, even if much of its future impact is already guaranteed.
I’m glad that greens are starting to admit carbon trading is a complete waste of money and effort, but I must say the prediction of a steep rise in psychological problems, is a bit like failed predictions that we shall be overwhelmed by hordes of climate refugees.
So far the only people getting depressed about climate change are green fanatics and climate scientists, whose obsession with the predictions of their broken models appears to be causing real psychological difficulties.
There is one source of future climate related psychological problems which concerns me – the ongoing efforts by green fanatics to infect school children with their depressing life view. Growing up is challenging enough; trusted teacher authority figures telling kids that they have no future, because the world is about to end, cannot be helping the children in their charge, to safely navigate their path to well adjusted adulthood.
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This is not one of five stages of grieving it is the final stage of the five stages of THIEVING. 🙂
lol — yes.
To understand where they come up with this stuff, you must first examine the perspective from which all climastrologists view the world.
Ronald Ginzler’s heads up regarding the newly fabricated mental psychosis, ” Climate Change Denial Disorder” was frightening to me. The fact that the field of psychology has been in infected with global warming hysteria zealots is dire warning to all lucid thinkers and defenders of free speech. One way or another these green tyrants believe they will impose their will on all those who disagree.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the inmates are running the asylum, The sad truth is the real psychosis is actually “Climate Change Acceptance Sydrome” or CCAS for short.
They would kill us if it were legal so instead they are now laying the groundwork for prefrontal lobotomies…
I haven’t heard that this one has made it into the DSM, but, believe me. Most people I know in mental health professions just laugh at nonsense like “Climate Change Denial Disorder.” Even if it had made it into the DSM, it wouldn’t be the first time a politically motivated bogus diagnosis showed up in there. Most serious professionals just reject this sort of thing.
In the Soviet Union, they had their pet psychologists declare that opposition to socialism was a mental disorder, and then used that definition to lock up without trial, anyone who opposed the government.
To make my first post clear, I was suggesting it could happen, as a worst case scenario, as DSM-listed disorders can be culturally driven. For instance, homosexuality used to be listed, but isn’t now. What was considered normal childhood behavior a hundred years ago is now called ADD or ADHD.
Aaron,
“One way or another these green tyrants believe they will impose their will on all those who disagree”.
I fear so . . especially when I see people speak of climate change acceptance, which I think actually includes both you and I, as psychosis. Do you deny that climate changes? I don’t, so seriously, stop using the Orwellian lingo, if you wish to resist the Orwellian agenda, I say.
There are reasons certain terms become mass media buzz words. Make a few more keystrokes, like ‘catastrophic human induced”, or ”carbon dioxide driven’, or the like, rather than help make me, and you, sound like ignoramuses . . please ; )
Forget carbon trading and Chinese coal powered electricity stations, if true this is something that has’t happen since Genghis Can time.
“Official Moscow has said that China has sent 5,000 of its elitist forces in the war zone to help Russia in the fight against the so-called Islamic State. On Sunday China approved the first anti-terrorism law that allows its military to participate in anti-terrorist missions.”
correction: Genghis Khan. Can of Can’t, Chinese said ‘yes we can’
And the Mongols sail, “Yes, we Khan!”.
said …
“…our gradual acceptance of the realities of global warming…” – I wonder if there will be a shift in stance by mainstream anti CO2 activists where they just quietly accept the reality of a constantly changing climate and spend the next few years blaming it on anyone who didn’t agree with their views. This will allow them to exit anti CO2 activism slowly without having to make a dramatic admission that they were way overboard with their views while still publicly bashing the groups they hate.
They’ll still have to acknowledge the fact that CO2 is helping grow food better when it’s colder and dryer decades from now.
If anyone is going through the 5 stages of grief it would be the cult of calamitous carbon, as their cherished ideology falls apart. This could keep psychiatrists very busy for quite some time. Of course, a name will need to be coined for this new form of mental illness, and there would be a corresponding boost to the pharmaceutical industry.
Climate is the system of weather systems. It has not changed, is not changing.
Growing up is challenging enough; trusted teacher authority figures telling kids that they have no future, because the world is about to end, cannot be helping the children in their charge, to safely navigate their path to well adjusted adulthood.
Heck, the “inevitable” disasters I grew up with — all propounded by my teachers and the press — make the CAGW predictions look like a piker.
Those disasters started in the hundreds of millions dead and took it up to billions.
Some have never recovered, I suppose, they’re still grieving. AGW was just the “next thing”. I made out okay (but, then, I was schooled in demographics by Herman Kahn).
“I’m glad that greens are starting to admit carbon trading is a complete waste of money and effort.”
Too bad you haven’t convinced the oil companies, they beg to differ: http://www.statoil.com/en/NewsAndMedia/News/2015/Downloads/Paying%20for%20Carbon%20letter.pdf
U.S. petroleum companies don’t need convincing — they already get it:
(emphases mine)
(Source: “Oil Majors Climate Call Exposes U.S. – Europe Rift on Carbon Pricing,” Reuters, June 3, 2015, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-oil-majors-idUSKBN0OJ19E20150603 )
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The market will have the final word. It is saying, “get out, NOW.” The bottom has basically dropped out. Ker-plunk. Vol. shares traded in this carbon market on 12/24/15: 0.
http://calcarbondash.org/
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In other words, nice try, Chris, but no one is buying your “argument.”
European banks also get it.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/01/31/eu-carbon-death-spiral-continues/