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Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Political activist Laura Schmidt has created the “Good Grief” support group, to help depressed eco-activists work through their climate grief.
Sad about climate change? There’s a support group for that.
A new program, reflecting lessons from Alcoholics Anonymous, aims to help people work through their grief about climate change. The first step: Admit we have a problem.
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The gathering is the brainchild of Laura Schmidt, who described the meeting in a recent Skype interview. Schmidt’s day job at HEAL Utah is to rally others to support clean air legislation in the state. By night, she’s been organizing this monthly “Good Grief” group, which focuses on working through heavy feelings about difficult societal problems, especially climate change.
There’s no clinical definition for “climate grief,” but for Schmidt, “It’s that feeling at the pit of your stomach when you realize that people – probably even the ones we love – and wildlife will suffer as the impacts of climate change become more prevalent. It’s the ache we feel when we see how non-existent or slow ‘progress’ to combat warming is.”
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A master plan to cope with climate grief
Two years ago, while pursuing a master’s degree in environmental humanities at the University of Utah, Schmidt set out to answer a question: “How do we create resilient humans?” She says she wanted to understand how people could become better able to keep up the difficult fight to address climate change.
To answer her question, she interviewed people who spend a lot of time focused on the subject, such as climate scientists and activists. She says she hoped to find out what sustains those people in what can seem like an uphill battle.
Through conversations with the likes of author-activist Terry Tempest Williams and 350.org founder Bill McKibben, Schmidt says she discovered clear themes. The people she spoke with seemed unafraid to say they felt sad or mad or angry. They also drew strength and joy from a strong connection to the natural world. And they had a community they turned to for support.
“When things got really depressing for them, they could take a break and let their community care for them a little bit – and then go back out and fight or talk about climate change,” she says.
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8. Look for beauty and meaning. Some stories from the Holocaust suggest that finding even the smallest examples of beauty, like a tiny flower in otherwise barren earth, can give people something to hold on to, even through horror, Schmidt says. She points to science that suggests different parts of the brain are responsible for triggering different responses: the reptilian part of the brain, which causes flight-or-fight fear responses, or the mammalian brain, which is what urges us to look more deeply at any given situation. “What’s cool about brain science,” she says, “is that with practices like meditation, we get to choose what part of our brain responds to these threats.”
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Read more: http://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2016/11/climate-change-support-group-launches/
The reference to the Holocaust IMO is outrageous – comparing self indulgent climate angst to the hideous mental torment endured by the survivors of a brutal programme of mass extermination insults the memory of the victims of national socialism.
That there is a faux degree called “environmental humanities” gives a clear insight into how this climate kook has managed to attract a group of fellow climate kooks to feel self righteous about being such pathetic losers.
Almost as bad as “Climate Communications”.
“100 Percent Science, Zero Percent Skepticism” That explains everything, if you can believe that, the rest of the warmist nonsense is easy.
Which is the point.
Ms. Schmidt is almost there: she is admitting that climate extremists have a problem. But like an out of control alcoholic, she thinks the way to deal with it is to go to a crowded bar and join in a drinking party with her likeomded friends and blame anything else for their problem except for themselves.
“……join in a drinking party with her like minded friends and blame anything else for their problem except for themselves…… Pre-fill spelling is not my friend….
The reason I don’t think a thing of climate change is because of where I live here close to Chicago, Illinois. Climate speaking it has gotten as cold as -24° F and as high as 104° F, a minimum of a 100° (max 120°) temperature swing over 6 months year-in, year-out. Nobody dies because we live prepared for this. I laugh at the people alarmed because the average land temperature went up like 0.003°. Maybe this should be pointed out to these alarmist.
Ok Schmitd, I want to see the bottom of that barrel cleaned and scraped by Monday morning.
And you (GS) wearing it. Like the Vicar of Stiffkey who ended up being killed by Freddie the lion at Skegness.
http://thedabbler.co.uk/2013/05/the-rector-of-stiffkey-unclothed/
Missing..very important information!
How much is she charging these lovely people for her “professional services”?
If the fee is hefty, she is brilliant.
If we the taxpayer are funding this, she is just another member of Gang Green.
How better to limit the social damage , credulous loonies can do, than by relieving them of their ready cash?
As a note, our political parasites feel the same way about citizens having private wealth and the right to spend such as we see fit.
Thus their desire to seize all.
Clearly these people suffer from Pre Traumatic Stress Syndrome and the way they deal with it is by sharing their fears with like minded people and then meet at Moral High Ground where they have a virtue signalling competition.
“Pre Traumatic Stress!!!!!” I love it!
I’m going to use it, next time my wife wants me to get out of bed and I don’t have a fever.
So therapy for sad feelings is expressing more feelings. Might assuage the symptoms for a bit, but won’t cure the disease. How about acquiring some actual knowledge of the the subject? Learning from mistakes is a sign of growth. And with growth comes confidence and quite possibly resilience.
These people need the Squirrel Whisperer. The human brain is prone to nasty positive feedback loops. Sometimes all it takes is a picture of a cute squirrel wearing a Carmen Miranda hat to break the loop and restore sanity.
And for the hard cases . . .
Apparently guvmnt money has dried up and the lunatics have to fend for themselves. It’s about friggin time.
Wonder what Mann will be peddling on some street corner. His secret formula for how to make data talk in order to make money? I can just see the TV ad now. And you can get two copies for the price of one, just pay shipping and handling.
Anti-baldness scalp lotion?
Well done there ma’am! At the political turn of the tide as ordinary people wake from their long and hopeless torpor buttressed by the mesmerising vision of a Liberal lunatic piper leading the West dancing into willful oblivion, they need iconic insanity like this to remind them of exactly why they must keep the momentum going.
Another way they could work through their “climate grief” would be to have carnal relations with trees and other inanimate, nature-related objects. Also, I’m sure Bill “the weepster” McKibben could lead sessions in weeping, moaning, sobbing, teeth-gnashing, and wrenting of hair and clothes. The possibilities are endless. In fact, I’m envisioning an entire industry built around this, replete with weekend climate retreats, climate camps, climate schools, climate churches. It would be awesomesauce.
Hey! It’s all good news! CO2 doubling will heat the planet about 1.1C, giving us the good times of the medieval warming period. So stop that moping, put on a sunny face, paint the town red.
Unless, of course, for these folks, disaster IS good news?
I think that they should be treated as the students at U. of Michigan who were
suffering from “Trump Trauma” were – given coloring books, play dough, and
a quiet room to use their “mental age apporpriate” toys.
Do these people live in a bubble? I look at the same world and see a revolutionary power technology about to be deployed (molten salt reactors) and transportation techonologies (electric cars) and worry a WHOLE lot more about reduction of CO2 to levels that make feeding the populations of the Earth unsustainable. THAT is something to worry about, not global warming.
So what are the plans of these Earth saviors to avoid that??
I too would like to see Thorium reactors a reality -but they aren’t and it will be the 2030s before we (might) see a design which could be built in quantity.
for the next decade and more, we need other sources of power.
“for the next decade and more, we need other sources of power.”
We’ve got them!
FRACK BABY FRACK!
Fortunately, we have them: coal, oil, gas, and traditional nuclear.
We’ve had thorium reactors since the 1950’s.
“Environmental Humanities”? These people are beyond parody.
We will need climate PTSD therapy next. For climate warriors traumatized by their experience in the climate wars and all those collaterally damaged, otherwise innocent civilians who bought their propaganda, began resenting their fellow humans, and started to needlessly constrain their own lifestyle.
Yes, “Good Grief” definitely sums them up.
Has Griff joined yet?
My dear sir, I have no need to!
‘don’t mourn, organise’ are my watchwords.
I see Trump as a Dunkirk moment for science…. but ‘We’ll be back’
I wonder hadn’t you chaps better get a big pile of clean, ironed hankies ready for when the wheels come off your climate scam?
Unfortunately Trump’s presidency will see a string of climate records and disasters, clearly demonstrating warming.
Just to remind you, this is becoming a problem the sceptic side has to avoid writing about:
Griff, the arctic has generally been shrinking for 22,000+ or so years. Not all warming is man-made. Furthermore, not all melting related to warming is due to greenhouse gases (e.g., see “black carbon”), and not all melting is related to warming as well (e.g., change in albedo).
Lastly, Draconian measures to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions have a minimal effect according to all of the models which historically over-estimate warming in the first place. Feel-good and wealth-redistribution policies accomplish next-to-nothing.
What “disasters” under Trump will be evidence of “clearly demonstrating warming?” I know that idiots like you try to attribute every single weather event to global warming, but come on. Atlantic hurricane activity, Atlantic major hurricane activity, and US tornadic activity all see to be quieting-down. These are the sorts of weather “disasters” we were supposed to fear in a warming world. Now if we could just keep people from building in floodplains and turning everything they can into a concrete jungle with outdated and minimal stormwater controls, we’d be hard-pressed to find any “disasters.” But instead hype and funding go to climate garbage.
“Unfortunately Trump’s presidency will see a string of climate records and disasters, clearly demonstrating warming.”
So you believe that any climate records or disasters that may happen will all be caused starting Jan 20th, 2017? Apparently you now believe in instant climate change! On top of everything else that Trump guy must be a climate magician to be able to do that.
“‘don’t mourn, organise’ are my watchwords.”
Hmmmm….
“Organise”?
First, Brexit.
Next, Trump.
Not doing very well, are you?
“Just to remind you, this is becoming a problem the sceptic side has to avoid writing about:”
In your dreams!
For the umpteenth time, Griffie’s graph simply indicates Arctic ice extent bottomed out about ten years ago. AMO, anyone?
Griffy and his graph have become quite the one-note-Johnny.
As usual, the troll has it backwards. The narrow election of Trump is the end of the beginning of the assault on civil society and rational thought by the climate change consensus. Trump, and the fresh breath of pro-human, pro-rational thought he represents is the start of the route of the post rational, post truth social maniacs obsessed with imposing their climate apocalypse myth.
..Dear Griffy, can you please explain to me why melting Arctic Sea Ice is a problem ? Will you not have enough snow to build your igloo ?? Will you run short of ice cubes on Christmas ? Maybe you are worried about not having anywhere to plant your Arctic crops next year… I really am curious… ../ Yuge Sarc….
You guys just don’t have the right character flaw.
Some people never tire of laughingstocks.
Thanks, Griff.
jajaja
Griff, “My dear sir, I have no need to!”. Oh dear, you do need help. The first stage is always denial.
Not bad. I only had to see the graph to know Griff had checked in.
“We’ll be back.”
However ludicrous this may sound coming from our dear Griffy, those opposing the AGW jihad will be well advised to keep in mind a related movie line:
Listen, and understand. That terminator is out there. It can’t be reasoned with, it can’t be bargained with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.
Griff is like some stock market chartist he believes in wiggly line junk. His red line isn’t below the other lines at the bottom but it is below the other lines in the middle it must have some special significance. The pigs were acting strange and he saw a black raven sitting on the fence so that confirmed his belief.
Griff mate it’s a line on a graph it doesn’t come with special meaning that requires analysis something your googling or this or that next “Griff Fact” ™ you want to show us can’t do.
Disclaimmer: “Griff Facts” ™ have no relationship to real facts and most similarity is purely fleeting.
So lets put the acid on you Griff since you think you are a good chartist.
Give us the predictions for the next 4 years so we can see if you know how to predict a chart or are just full of it. So lets have our “Griff predictions” ™
Since anger would be part of the whole “climate grieving” process, I propose ‘safe rooms” with various “denihilist dummies” (boom) and punching bags with the names (and even faces) of favorite denihilists they love to hate, including Trump. We know the violence is there, just waiting, like a crouched tiger, to be released.
Don’t forget the 10-10 No Pressure video, which exposes the underlying violence.
Thanks Eric and “spot on” with your last paragraph.
What a thoroughly disgusting eco-tard she (Laura Schmidt) appears to be.
We are all still paying a very high price for electricity because of this crap, so; I want my money back or, I am entitled to call her an arsehole. (On second thoughts, that would be an insult to arseholes).
Regards,
WL
This is another example of why we need to have an invasion by genuine Martians. These imbeciles need something really worth worrying about. Way too much time on their hands. And probably too much wealth that allows them to waste time and energy on nonsense instead of having a productive job.
But Martians couldn’t stop the greenhouse disaster on their own planet. That’s why the water is all frozen underground and you never a see a Martian on the surface.
What’s cool about brain science,” she says, “is that with practices like meditation, we get to choose what part of our brain responds…”
Um, uh, yeah! How twue that is. Why just the other day I was tired while I was dwiving. So, I figured I’d let part of my bwain sleep. And, the other part of my bwain dwive.
Bam! Thump! Tinkle, tinkle.
Ah, if only they could choose the part of the brain which uses rational thought and analysis. The part that by now has probably atrophied to pea-size.
No joke, some people succeed in sleeping while driving. It’s called an alcoholic blackout. They often make it home in such a state. Sometimes not. They remember nothing the next day. If there is one.
You’ve been HAD. Lied to, used to enrich others. There, that takes care of your therapy. Now get angry and even with those who LIED to you and USED you. Legally of course.
The best thing you can do is admit you’ve been had and NEVER trust those sources again. This will be hard to do but you will be much stronger for it. I truly hope this gives you a more skeptical view of everything.
If you still want to help the environment there’s a lot of reclamation projects that can be done by volunteers. Yes you can still be concerned about the environment and we all should be unless you want to end up like George Carlin’s explained. Here’s a great place to start:
http://www.landscapesandcycles.net/
Or plant some trees like the purveyor of this fine site did. But for goodness sake realize you’ve been had and do something about it.
ooohhhh I might want to join Good Grief…
will they have hot cocoa and coloring books and puppy dogs to pet?
do I have to add the /sarc?
Yes, all that and more. BYOB of course (bring your own blanket, preferably a blue one).