12:00 PM 05/07/2019 | Energy
Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor
Can climate change worry hurt one’s mental health? That’s what CNN is claiming about “climate anxiety” and also linking to the election of President Donald Trump.
Trump’s “lack of political will” is making “climate anxiety” worse for many people, CNN reported Tuesday, citing experts. One professor claimed a student spent two hours crying after learning about global warming.
“With the Trump election, the change in my students, the sense of grief and fear and paralysis in the room, became palpable,” Wendy Petersen Boring, a gender studies professor at Willamette University, told CNN.
“Climate anxiety is real” and can be managed by taking part in a host of “green” fads, including going vegetarian with “meatless Mondays,” riding a bike to work and shopping with a reusable bag instead of a plastic one, CNN reported.
Whether doing any of these would work or not is up for debate, but linking climate change to mental illness is more common among mental health professionals. That’s not surprising given encouragement from the American Psychological Association (APA) and environmental activists to link climate change to people’s mental well-being.
A 69-page guide put out by the APA and environmental group ecoAmerica in 2017 urged mental health professionals to “mobilize climate change discussions” and “bring awareness to the interdependent relation of climate change and mental health.”
“They have the opportunity to help guide our communities on a path of progress through clean, healthy climate solutions,” reads the 2017 guide. (RELATED: Trump’s Waging An Uphill Battle Against The Regulatory Deep State. Here’s Who Is Winning)
While not used in the guide, the term “climate anxiety” has been used in the media to describe the supposed psychological toll of worrying about global warming. News stories on “climate anxiety” — also called “climate grief” — detail college students crying about dying coral reefs or people holding “climate change depression” sessions.
More notably, New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said “young people” are questioning whether or not to have kids because of global warming
On one hand, young people today are bombarded with alarming headlines warning of an unlivable planet because of global warming. For example, reporters for months repeated the debunked warning of only “12 years left” to save the planet.
The United Nations made waves Monday in warning of an imminent ecological crisis and the accelerating collapse of the natural world — the same warnings the international body made in the 1980s.
CNN claimed higher temperatures “have led to more suicides and increased psychiatric hospitalization and have hurt our sleep.”
The APA wants psychiatrists and other mental health professionals to become climate activists. It’s a similar strategy taken by the Obama administration in 2015 when it asked medical doctors to “raise awareness” about global warming.
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I know some people who seem to be affected with it; however, they seem to have pre-existing anxiety problems already. If you are already an anxious person, your mind seizes on whatever excuse there is to be anxious.
CNN says its real and continues to gaslight a generation.
Put away the trowel you need a shovel to handle their hypocrisy and BS
Can also be managed by calling bs.
I think is both amusing and pathetic that CNN continually posts climate scare stories on its website and then posts a story about people’s climate scare anxieties as though it had absolutely nothing to do with it.
Being an outlet for the climate scare and ignoring the serious scientific uncertainties and problems with the CAGW hypothesis is just one of the ways in which CNN demonstrates that it has (to one degree or another) abandoned sound journalistic principles. By choosing ideological indoctrination and fear mongering over balanced news reporting (as much of the MSM has today), CNN should have little reason to wonder why its ratings are poor according to articles I’ve read on the subject. But I suppose that as long as they are still profitable, they can live with it.
Watching CNN and their MSM pals trying to explain themselves someday if and when the CAGW scare blows over and/or becomes discredited should be an interesting show. I don’t know if I will be around for that or if it will ever happen. The media doesn’t seem to fancy being accountable to the American people when it becomes obvious they didn’t exactly get something right. But I guess If you view yourself as infallible, you have pretty much exempted yourself from being accountable for anything.
Orange Man Bad. Of course President Trump is to blame.
Come to think of it, that ginormous list of all things bad caused by ‘Climate Change’ has slipped to second place since President Trump was elected.
/obvious explanation that’s totally apparent to the 4-dozen remaining CNN viewers
I feel there is a fair bit of cart/horse spacial relationship failure is happening here.
The claim being made is that fear of Climate Change(tm) is leading to mental distress.
The claim that should be investigated however is do already mentally distressed people naturally embrace Climate Change(tm)?
Let’s face it, who among us believes that whipping the shirt off, lathering a fair amount of super glue across the exposed skin and then laying chest down in the middle of the road is remotely rational?
I’ve heard they are working on a vaccine for climate change denial. Once that’s made mandatory, we’ll all be greenies…
CNN = CHIT NOT NEWS
“Trump’s “lack of political will” is making “climate anxiety” worse for many people, CNN reported Tuesday, citing experts. One professor claimed a student spent two hours crying after learning about global warming.”
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in 12 years the 16-year-old urgent world climate extinction female fighter will be 28 years old. she will be exhausted, determined. Sometimes she will be bitter, sometimes in a happy fighting mood, firmingly determined.
she will not have learned that much: not that that counts for her, with a life expectancy ~ 100 years.
planet earth incl. it’s climate will be older by 12 years. not so concerning:
it’s climate will be older by 12 years, after 12 billion years. With a life expectancy of 8 to 12 billion years.
and planet earth including it’s climate will have had good times and bad times: not so impressed.
With a life expectancy of 8 to 12 billion years.
“Trump’s “lack of political will” is making “climate anxiety” worse for many people, CNN reported Tuesday, citing experts. One professor claimed a student spent two hours crying after learning about global warming.”
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in 12 years the 16-year-old urgent world climate extinction female fighter will be 28 years old. she will be exhausted, determined. Sometimes she will be bitter, sometimes in a happy fighting mood, firmingly determined.
she will not have learned that much: not that that counts for her, with a life expectancy ~ 100 years.
~ 4.8 billion old planet earth incl. it’s climate will be older by 12 years. not so concerning:
it’s climate will be older by 12 years, after 12 years. With a life expectancy of 8 to 12 billion years.
and planet earth including it’s climate will have had good times and bad times: not so impressed.
With a life expectancy of 8 to 12 billion years.
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“Climate activists of the Extinction Rebellion group lay down and chant slogans demanding more actions from EU governments during the annual Open Day at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, May 4, 2019. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY – RC14FC25D410 Climate activists of the Extinction Rebellion group lay down and chant slogans demanding more actions from EU governments during the annual Open Day at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, May 4, 2019. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir”.
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https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-samsung&ei=7FPVXJD8Ho7mrgT1xraACQ&q=best+shops+to+work+in+brussels&oq=best+shops+to+work+in+brussels&gs_l=mobile-gws-wiz-serp.
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“Trump’s “lack of political will” is making “climate anxiety” worse for many people, CNN reported Tuesday, citing experts. One professor claimed a student spent two hours crying after learning about global warming.”
___________________________________________________
in 12 years the 16-year-old urgent world climate extinction female fighter will be 28 years old. she will be exhausted, determined. Sometimes she will be bitter, sometimes in a happy fighting mood, firmingly determined.
she will not have learned that much: not that that counts for her, with a life expectancy ~ 100 years.
~ 4.8 billion old planet earth incl. it’s climate will be older by 12 years. not so concerning:
it’s climate will be older by 12 years, after 12 years. With a life expectancy of 8 to 12 billion years.
and planet earth including it’s climate will have had good times and bad times: not so impressed.
With a life expectancy of 8 to 12 billion years.
___________________________________________________
“Climate activists of the Extinction Rebellion group lay down and chant slogans demanding more actions from EU governments during the annual Open Day at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, May 4, 2019. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY – RC14FC25D410 Climate activists of the Extinction Rebellion group lay down and chant slogans demanding more actions from EU governments during the annual Open Day at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, May 4, 2019. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir”.
Lucky people that, living and working in luxury “the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium,”:
luxury coffee shops in Brussels, Belgium
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maneken pis in Brussels, Belgium:
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The whole Congo was private property of the King in / of Brussels, Belgium:
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herge comics museum Brussels, Belgium:
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no chance to argue with more / less orthodox more / less aggressive green belivers :
Instinctively they recognize “their” “climate deniers”;
Intuitively they know to prevent rational argumentation to exhausting, to demanding, they would have to think and know what to think and remember heard arguments and their own answers.
Better to call them deniers flat earthers hanging on conspiracy theories;
Better to stay intimidated, stupid, truly untouched better belivers – academic to terroristic moral high bedded standing /
contrary, I know.
“Trump’s “lack of political will” is making “climate anxiety” worse for many people, CNN reported Tuesday, citing experts. One professor claimed a student spent two hours crying after learning about global warming.”
___________________________________________________
in 12 years the 16-year-old urgent world climate extinction female fighter will be 28 years old. she will be exhausted, determined. Sometimes she will be bitter, sometimes in a happy fighting mood, firmingly determined.
she will not have learned that much: not that that counts for her, with a life expectancy ~ 100 years.
~ 4.8 billion old planet earth incl. it’s climate will be older by 12 years. not so concerning:
it’s climate will be older by 12 years, after 12 years. With a life expectancy of 8 to 12 billion years.
and planet earth including it’s climate will have had good times and bad times: not so impressed.
With a life expectancy of 8 to 12 billion years.
___________________________________________________
“Climate activists of the Extinction Rebellion group lay down and chant slogans demanding more actions from EU governments during the annual Open Day at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, May 4, 2019. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY – RC14FC25D410 Climate activists of the Extinction Rebellion group lay down and chant slogans demanding more actions from EU governments during the annual Open Day at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, May 4, 2019. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir”.
Lucky people that, living and working in luxury “the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium,”:
luxury coffee shops in Brussels, Belgium
https://www.google.com/search?q=luxury+coffees+in+Brussels%2C+Belgium&oq=luxury+coffees+in+Brussels%2C+Belgium&aqs=chrome.
https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-samsung&ei=7FPVXJD8Ho7mrgT1xraACQ&q=best+shops+to+work+in+brussels&oq=best+shops+to+work+in+brussels&gs_l=mobile-gws-wiz-serp.
maneken pis in Brussels, Belgium:
https://www.google.com/search?q=maneken+pis+in+Brussels%2C+Belgium&oq=maneken+pis+in+Brussels%2C+Belgium&aqs=chrome.
___________________________________________________
The whole Congo was private property of the King in / of Brussels, Belgium:
https://www.google.com/search?q=whole+Congo+was+private+property+of+the+King+in+%2F+of+Brussels%2C+Belgium%3A&oq=whole+Congo+was+private+property+of+the+King+in+%2F+of+Brussels%2C+Belgium%3A&aqs=chrome.
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herge comics museum Brussels, Belgium:
https://www.google.com/search?q=herge+comics+museum+Brussels%2C+Belgium&oq=herge+comics+museum+Brussels%2C+Belgium&aqs=chrome.
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no chance to argue with more / less orthodox more / less aggressive green belivers :
Instinctively they recognize “their” “climate deniers”;
Intuitively they know to prevent rational argumentation to exhausting, to demanding, they would have to think and know what to think and remember heard arguments and their own answers.
Better to call them deniers flat earthers hanging on conspiracy theories;
Better to stay intimidated, stupid, truly untouched better belivers – academic to terroristic moral high bedded standing /
Contradictory, I know.
Bad enough you constantly post your useless and annoying google search links (despite being told, my multiple people, to knock it off), but do you have to spam the thread by posting them multiple times in a row?