Guest essay by Eric Worrall
On the 18th of this month, Dr. Alex Wodak, a high profile Australian expert on drug rehabilitation, named fear of climate change as one of the major problems driving young people into the kind of despair which leads to addiction to hard drugs, during his testimony to the NSW Government Ice Inquiry.
An excerpt of the transcript which has just been made available is below;
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First, the threshold step is redefining drugs as primarily a health and social issue rather than primarily a law enforcement issue. Second, drug treatment has to be expanded and improved until it reaches the same level as other health services. Third, all penalties for personal drug use and possession have to be scrapped.
Fourth, as much of the drug market as possible has to be regulated while recognising that part of the drug market is already regulated, such a methadone treatment, needle and syringe programs, medically supervised injecting centres. It will, of course, never be possible to regulate the entire drug market. We have regulated parts of the drug market before. Edible opium was taxed and regulated in Australia until 1906 and in the United States Coca-Cola contained cocaine until 1903.
Fifth, efforts to reduce the demand for powerful psychoactive drugs in Australia have had limited benefit and require a new focus. Unless and until young Australians feel optimistic about their future, demand for drugs will remain strong. Young people, understandably, want more certainty about their future prospects, including climate, education, jobs and housing affordability. Change will be slow and incremental, like all social policy reform.
As Herb Stein, as adviser to President Nixon said:
Things that cannot go on forever don’t.Drug prohibition cannot go on forever and will be replaced by libertarian paternalism. Thank you.
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Source:https://www.iceinquiry.nsw.gov.au//assets/scii/transcripts/Decriminalisation-round-table/Decriminalisation-Roundtable-Transcript.pdf(EW 6/8/23 – available on Wayback Machine)
How widespread is fear of extreme climate change?
According to a recent Rasmussen poll, 51% of people under 35 believe it is at least “somewhat likely” that humanity will be wiped out in the next 15 years (h/t ClimateDepot).
51% OF YOUNG VOTERS BELIEVE HUMANITY COULD BE WIPED OUT WITHIN 15 YEARS
Posted on September 23, 2019 | by Scott Rasmussen
Over the next 10-15 years, 29% of all voters believe it is at least somewhat likely that the earth will become uninhabitable and humanity will be wiped out. A ScottRasmussen.com national survey found that 71% disagree and find it unlikely.The totals include 10% who consider it Very Likely and 37% who say Not at All Likely.
There is a dramatic difference by age on this question. Half (51%) of voters under 35 believe it is at least somewhat likely humanity will be wiped out in the next decade or so. Only 12% of senior citizens agree (and only 4% of seniors believe it is Very Likely).
In the early days of the Cold War, many young people had similar concerns that the world would be destroyed by nuclear weapons. Another generation was convinced that overpopulation would devastate the human race by the 1980s. While we do not have comparable polling data for those periods, the response of young people today seems very similar.
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Read more: https://scottrasmussen.com/51-of-young-voters-believe-humanity-could-be-wiped-out-within-15-years/
Obviously most people under 35 will grow out of their climate fears, just as a previous generation overcame their fears of the cold war and nuclear armageddon.
But not everyone will make it.
How many children’s lives are being ruined right now, because over half of young people in the USA believe there will be no tomorrow?
When will the educators, the alarmist scientists, the sensationalist media, the unscrupulous politicians, who have promoted climate fear and destroyed economic opportunities with their regressive carbon taxes and expensive green energy plans, who have helped drain our young people of hope and a reason to make positive life choices, be made to face the horrific consequences of their selfishness?
Hype the meme that because of “CAGW”, the kid has no future. What do you expect?
They claim Man’s CO2 emissions can do just about anything to “Ma’ Gaia” but, Man’s CO2 doesn’t cause a sense of hopelessness. The hype does.
Is Climate Change more frightening than fear of imminent nuclear war? I doubt it. Of couse I didn’t have a smartphone or the internet to play chicken little on.
The newfound ability to broadcast one’s phobias has brought the nervous nellies out of the woodwork. And having the moral support of thousands of likemindless people emboldens them to flail about aimlessly.
Nothing new there. Fifty years ago they would have joined Hare Krishna, Scientology, Reverend Moon, or become fundamentalist Bible students.
And as always, there are the sociopathic leaders that know exactly how to manipulate these flocks for their own ends.
I have my doubts about Ms Thunberg’s autism. She seems too adept at social manipulation.
The guys who are using drugs and becoming addicted couldn’t care a flying fark about climate change
…they worry about traumas in their past, shit things they have been or are doing to buy drugs, sick of feeling sick so they use instead of hanging out and detoxing, wishing they could be better parents or frightened their kids will be taken from them …..
Unlike Alex Wodak who sat in an office shuffling research papers around at NDARC I was talking to the guys everyday …..
“Obviously most people under 35 will grow out of their climate fears, just as a previous generation overcame their fears of the cold war and nuclear armageddon.”
No Eric. People got over the Cold War because the Cold War ended.
The actual fear of nuclear war was also actively supported by the fact that both sides were actively building and displaying weapon systems. No modelling. No theories. No abstract studies completely independent from supporting hard data.
The other point about the Cold War was it WAS actually something humans could control. Muse on that one.
I think it’s a crime that our young people are literally being scared to death, while the proposed solutions being foisted on them by a sneering group of elites would cause untold misery and deprivation for most of the population.
Nothing new under the sun:
Mother’s Little Helper
Song by The Rolling Stones
LYRICS
What a drag it is getting old
“Kids are different today”
I hear ev’ry mother say
Mother needs something today to calm her down
And though she’s not really ill
There’s a little yellow pill
She goes running for the shelter of a mother’s little helper
And it helps her on her way, gets her through her busy day
“Things are different today”
I hear ev’ry mother say
Cooking fresh food for a husband’s just a drag
So she buys an instant cake and she burns her frozen steak
And goes running for the shelter of a mother’s little helper
And two help her on her way, get her through her busy day
Doctor please, some more of these
Outside the door, she took four more
What a drag it is getting old
“Men just aren’t the same today”
I hear ev’ry mother say
They just don’t appreciate that you get tired
They’re so hard to satisfy, You can tranquilize your mind
So go running for the shelter of a mother’s little helper
And four help you through the night, help to minimize your plight
Doctor please, some more of these
Outside the door, she took four more
What a drag it is getting old
“Life’s just much too hard today”
I hear ev’ry mother say
The pursuit of happiness just seems a bore
And if you take more of those, you will get an overdose
No more running for the shelter of a mother’s little helper
They just helped you on your way, through your busy dying day
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Keith Richards / Mick Jagger
Mother’s Little Helper lyrics © Abkco Music, Inc, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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The MSM have nothing to contribute to “the news”.
Their message “worth” 50 years ago came to succumb.