From the truth is stranger than fiction department comes this …this… I don’t know how to describe it. Words fail me.
h/t to Mhehed Zherting on Twitter
From her website:
Climate Anxiety Counseling at the Sankofa World Market: 8/17/16
AUGUST 18, 2016 / LEAVE A COMMENT
Weather: Hot, sunny and bright
Number of people: 9 stoppers, 1 walkby
Number of climate change deniers/trivializers: 3
Number of hecklers: 0!
Pages of notes: 9
People who commented on the Peanuts reference: 2
Pictures taken with permission: 1
Pictures taken without permission: 1
Money raised for Environmental Justice League of RI: $2.60, plus one stick of gum
About
CLIMATE ANXIETY COUNSELING
I’m scared for the effects of climate change on the world I love. Rather than try to think about, save, or mourn for the whole world, I decided to think about my city and state, and the living creatures — including other humans — who share it with me.
The first round of Climate Anxiety Counseling ran in Kennedy Plaza (outside Burnside Park), Tuesday-Friday 3-6 pm, Saturday 3-5 pm, May 13th-June 7th, 2014. Opposite the bus terminal, and just outside Burnside Park, I sat with a Lucy-from-Peanuts style booth (thank you, Charles Schulz):
When people stopped to talk with me, I asked them what they were most worried about — whether it was related to climate change or to something else — and if I could write down what they said. With permission, I’ve shared on this site some of what people said to me.
If you come to the booth, you can share your anxiety–climate or otherwise–with me, and respond to someone else’s anxiety in the form of an Alternate History, to help imagine a different set of futures (more about how and why here). You can also take away a little drawing of a living creature that shares the state with you. I’ve since set up the booth at AS220’s Foo Fest, the Washington County Fair, the Sankofa World Market, and the Providence International Art Festival.
I had to laugh at the “Pictures taken without permission” reference. She sets up in a public place, where photography of anything in public view is fair game, yet still thinks people need to ask permission to take photos of her stunt. Epic fail.
My anxiety about climate used to be essentially zero, but now extends to the fact that there are people like this who are so sure of themselves that they can say “let’s take care of each other” in their masthead, while at the same time use the pejorative “climate deniers” to label people. I guess the take care thing is selective based on belief.
It reminds me of a certain religion, where being publicly chastised for putting your religion on display is not only expected, it is part of the process of ascension in the ranks. On the plus side, I think we have a candidate for somebody even further “out there” than “Slandering Sou” aka Miriam O’Brien.
I think the term is “batshit crazy”.
You are unkind JH, I think it is more like just “sadder than sad”.
Note that “Number of hecklers: 0! “, i.e. those who got up close saw just how sadder than sad this poor little CAGW casualty was, like some poor little three legged kitten, limping and mioawing through life and just could not bring themselves to rub it in.
Part of the sadness also must be that the market price for her services is just 5c a pop. That makes the “Third World” look like Babylon in its heyday.
Zero factorial equals one.
Well spotted. Typical, innumerate alarmists don’t know the difference between 1 and 0.
However, climate anxiety is surely real. They have been stuffing this crap down everyone’s neck from kindergarten upwards and people really are worried about it.
I’m sure there are plenty of shrinks who are making $100 per 15min fees counselling those who can not cope.
This sorry fool probably just makes people feel worse.
During a postdoc in Israel, I visited the caves at Beit Guvrin; ancient lime mines that were later carved into underground monasteries during the Byzantine days.
Now, they’re bat-caves. The upper reaches are filled with bats (and pigeons). Down below, the floor was covered with . . . guess what. I stood literally ankle-deep in bat shit. Crazy!
If I’d been there, she’d have had a heckler!
Her other cause is Whirled Peas . . .
If “Climate Anxiety” is a real enough thing for a paid counsellor to exist, then surely *creating* climate anxiety has to be a tort, and the people who do that can be sued? I am of course not referring to people who create climate change but to people who wilfully create climate *anxiety*. Just a somewhat /sarc thought.
‘I think the term is “batshit crazy”.
Now, now, let’s not be too quick to jump to conclusions here!
Maybe we should be encouraging her to take it to the next logical step: prescribing the only cure for climate change anxiety. Hell, I’ll even recommend a good rope factory.
It’s probably just the APA’s attempt to establish the existence of another “disorder” so that they can recieve insurance reimbursement for treatment. But if they don’t get ‘climate anxiety” cataloged maybe they can get “lack of climate anxiety, anxiety” into the book.
Sounds about par for the course. About as legitimate a malady as some others; for eg ADD, more commonly known as crashing boredom.
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I’m disconsolate over not being worried enough about climate change……and I have 5 cents!
This counseling is a ray of sunshine for snowflakes. With any luck.
It follows the trend of universities creating “safe zones” where students are “protected” from contentious statements. It is also very PC with Climate Change being embraced by the Left, who seem to want us to return to the stone age. Every time I read this sort of c**p I feel that i need counselling because my blood pressure goes through the roof. the term “grow a pair” springs to mind.
Yeah I have suffered Climate Anxiety!!
Moron teachers failing to teach my children proper science and math but committed to indoctrinating them into the green religion.
I was anxious for 22 years while the BS from the school system poured like a sewer into my home.
Can I also get post traumatic Climate Stress counseling? Sign me up! the aggression, scapegoating, social isolation and ridicule that I suffered at the hands of moron teachers who know nothing of actual science or climate science. I should also get damages.
LOL – But of course, yours is a REAL problem… 😉
reality…I am not certain that I know what that is any more. 😉
Set up a stand on the other side – “CURE FOR CLIMATE ANXIETY” … FREE!
* More CO2 is greening earth.
* Deserts are shrinking.
* Fewer big hurricanes
* ETC.
Technically, if you take a “recognizeable” photograph of an individual, regardless of venue status, in order charge a fee for that photograph you have to have a permission form signed by the “model.” You only need permission if you plan or hope to make money from photo that includes someone else’s face. There’s a current law suit brought by PETA against a photographer over an image – he set what was essentially a photo trap and got this:
http://travelinlibrarian.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/monkeyselfie.jpg
The law suit:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/23/world/monkey-selfie-peta-lawsuit/
is unbelievably stupid, but I suspect the motive is really money that PETA can “administer” since the ape has no pockets – or trousers for that matter.
Just write him a check!
The suit failed….but the monkey is still smiling, after all, he’s famous!
She should make a lot of money off this group. They seem very anxious about global warming.
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I didn’t actually need a photograph to know what both the counsellor and the counsellee looked like…
They look like two members of the UK Green Party.
I thought the one on the right looks like Ruth Ginsburg and the one on the left looks like … Mike Myers?
“There’s nothing so pitiful as a three-dollar whore.” I mean, if she made it worth her while and charged a dollar or a pound sterling, as it were, does she fear being lumped in with Big Oil as a money grubber?
It is definitely a scene from Portlandia.
The stupid, it burns.
I full third of the people stopping in RHODE ISLAND didn’t buy her nonsense? The warmists are in more trouble than I thought.
Given the open prejudice of this ‘advisor’, one wonders if not having any concerns or anxiety about the climate automatically earns the title of trivializer?
One also wonder, with 9 visitors, that should be $0.45 cents. Where did the other $2.15 and a stick of gum come from?
More incomprehensible numbers from the alarmists?
You’re not supposed to ask hard math questions. 😛
Oh! Right.
Well, swap out the tricky math questions for;
I wonder if the chewing gum is the expensive and rare natural chewing gum, (e.g. chicle, mastic, spruce sap) or the modern butadiene-based synthetic rubber kind?
And does the presumably starving CAGW climate change crusader know and understand such silly things?
Who is caring for her 18 cats while she is getting her climate anxiety counseling??? Now I need counseling for my possible-cat-abandonment anxiety!
Yup, I have climate anxiety.
I worry that a bunch of UN bureaucrats are going to cause my government to ruin our energy infrastructure
.I am worried that just when energy is expensive and scarce we might tip into a cooling trend.
Yes, I have the same anxiety. Except mine also includes a major market crash and prolonged recession.
I did something about mine–bought a front end loader, a couple chainsaws, and a big-ass wood splitter!
The photo caption says she is in Burnside Park. I don’t know where that is but it looks like a lovely place. Clean, litter-free streets. Clean air. Gorgeous, sunny day. Luscious green trees and grass in the park. She should be rejoicing that she has set up her little booth in what I’d imagine an Eden-like paradise to be.
Yet she suffers from MMCA – Man Made Climate Anxieties. Anxieties caused from listening to charlatans and hucksters. Many of the same folks who scared her about population growth, declining biodiversity, peak oil, mad cow disease, ebola, second hand smoke, nuclear fuel, fracking, vaccines, GMOs, zika, bird flu, SARS, Y2K, saturated fat, and every other media promoted hysteria of the past half century.
She needs to see a shrink so she can learn how to enjoy life. She is living in the best place, at the best time, to be alive.
“She needs to see a shrink so she can learn how to enjoy life. She is living in the best place, at the best time, to be alive.”
So many people do not understand this. This IS the best time to be alive, and North America IS the best place to be!
I will bet a pay for an argument booth would have been much more successful and helpful.
No it wouldn’t.
Yes it would –
No, that’s Contradiction…..down the hall, to your left.
You mean an argument clinic?
Sorry, hadn’t refreshed lately.
I googled the location, It is in Providence RI. The sad State that is represented by Sheldon Whitehouse. Somehow, it all fits together.
Also note the sweaters in August.
Did you see that she described the weather as “hot”. Maybe they should take off their sweaters. Duuuuh!
Learn to relax.
5 cents please!
Everybody!
This is a business opportunity. Set up a storefront office, advertise in local media, charge market rate counseling fees.
The more left-wing, moonbatty the local population, the better the business. Seems to me that Providence should be a good location for the first office. (Think franchise)
This is a way to make some coin off of CAGW and the neurosis that comes with it. Sure beats being a skeptic and waiting for that check from Big Oil that never comes.
There was supposed to be an image here — hopefully at least the link to it will work.
One more try
Do not disparage the colonel. He provided us with some delicious chicken and awesome biscuits.
I notice that she seems to be charging customers for her services on a public street . In the UK I believe that she would be classed as a street trader and need a licence , and possibly an inspection by the Trading Standards Authority of the local council to ensure that customers are getting a fair deal in terms of the product offered.
Given the concern expressed by so many AGs about the quality of the advice given by Exxon to their customers and investors re. climate change , can we be reassured that she has passed the vetting by Schneidermann (I am assuming Kennedy Plaza in in NY).
It is fitting that this prank is located in Providence R.I. A typical one party city which is dead broke. Senator Outhouse and his fellow R.I. pols are angling for massive federal infrastruce spending to mitigate non existent AGW sea level rise. That is the big picture plan to obtain other peoples money for a fiscally sinking state.
Like the housing scam green grifters come in all political flavors. In Iowa Governor for life Terry Vilsack shares a last name and lots of genes with the head of the wind power lobbying group.
heh, Practitioner, Heal Thyself.
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Since see wants to imitate Lucy Van Pelt let’s get her to hold a football. But the last laugh will be on her. When she pulls the ball away we kick her instead.
Yup, the first thing I though of was Lucy (of Peanuts cartoon fame) and her “Psychiatric Help” booth.
Of course, don’t forget the climate anxiety brought on by footballs deflating as the weather turns cold.
Depending on where this is, one might need a license to conduct this business which includes taking $$$, just like kids have been stopped for selling lemonade.
I have “Climate Anxiety “, I’m very much concerned that the left-wing loonies are going win and institute policies that will do lasting environmental* and economical damage.
* Geoengineering
“will do lasting environmental* and economical damage.”
They already ARE. Wind turbines and solar farms are prime examples.
Seems like an ideal franchise-business opportunity.
Plenty of gullible punters will ensure a very profitable revenue stream