Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Psychologists meeting at the International Summit on Psychology and Global Health event in Lisbon have decided to do everything possible to promote behaviours which help address the climate crisis.
Proclamation
“We, representatives of national and international psychological organizations in attendance at the Lisbon Inaugural International Summit on Psychology’s Contributions to Global Health, are committed to ongoing collaboration in the application of psychological science to jointly advance progress on critical global issues, including the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Our commitment of professional, scientific, educational, cultural, and applied resources will be directed to advancing those issues and Goals for which psychology offers the greatest contribution.
Our initial efforts will be focused on Sustainable Development Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
Our mutual work on applications of psychological science to climate change will also provide a framework and model for future collaboration focused on proposals to address critical global issues”.
DRAFT RESOLUTION
“WHEREAS there is overwhelming agreement among climate scientists that climate crisis poses a serious global threat, is occurring faster than previously anticipated, and is caused in part by human behavior;
WHEREAS the resistance of some individuals worldwide to accept evidence of climate crisis reflects a variety of psychological, social, economic, and political factors, including misunderstanding the relevant science; psychological threats of departing from the consensus view of one’s peer-group; deliberate exposure to misinformation; and concerns about financial losses stemming from addressing climate crisis;
WHEREAS current research and public communication on the impact of climate crisis have often emphasized the major physical damage caused by extreme weather, such as floods, droughts, hurricanes, and wildfires, and insufficiently addressed the increased displacement, migration, and conflict affecting those populations involved;
WHEREAS climate crisis has a disproportionate impact on already vulnerable groups with fewer resources, including low-income individuals or those who live in rural areas, people of color, women, children, older adults, and individuals with disabilities;
WHEREAS research shows that climate change-related events can result in major acute and chronic adverse mental health outcomes, including stress, trauma, and shock; post-traumatic stress disorder and other forms of anxiety; depression; and substance use disorder, which have been a secondary consideration in climate change communication and action;
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that our psychology organizations will advocate for and support international and cross-disciplinary collaboration to mitigate and facilitate adaptation to climate crisis.
We will inform our respective members and the public about climate crisis, emphasizing scientific research and consensus on its causes and short- and long-term harms, and the need for immediate personal and societal action;
We will encourage our members and other mental health leaders to be vocal advocates concerning the necessary preparatory and responsive adaptations to climate crisis and to invest more in research and practice is this area;
We will advocate for Universities and other entities could include formation on societal challenges and, particularly, climate crisis for psychologists and other mental health professionals;
We will increase the availability of services and supportive interventions to help minimize harm to mental health and well-being, especially among vulnerable populations, and increase community resilience;
We will advocate for the rights of those most susceptible to the negative health, and mainly, mental health impacts of climate crisis, for example, by encouraging policymakers to fully fund programs to aid those who suffer harm from severe climate crisis-related events;
We will support the development of a public awareness campaign to encourage individuals and communities to adopt behaviors to help prepare for and recover from gradual climate change and acute climate crisis events;
We will encourage governmental, educational, health, and corporate leaders to use more psychological science in police designs as well as to adopt norms, values, and policy to promote sustainable preventive and corrective behaviors in individuals, groups and communities“.
PROCLAMATION ON COLLABORATION SIGNED BY
American Psychological Association, Order of Portuguese Psychologists, Australian Psychological Society, Bahamas Psychological Association, Brazilian Society of Psychology, British Psychological Society, Canandian Psychological Association, Caribbean Alliance of National Psychological Associations, Chinese Psychological Society, Asian Psychological Assocation, College of Psychologists of Peru, Colombian College of Psychologists, Cuban Society of Health Psychology, Cuban Society of Psychology, European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations, Flemish Association for Clinical Psychologists, German Psychological Society, Guatemala College of Psychologists, International Association of Applied Psychology, International Council of Psychologists, International Union of Psychological Science, Jamaican Psychological Society, Japanese Psychological Association, Jordanian Clinical Psychologists Association, Lebanese Psychological Association, Mexican Psychological Society, National Psychological Association of Ukraine, New Zealand Psychological Society, Nicaraguan Association for the Development of Psychology, Nigerian Psychological Association, Norwegian Psychological Association, Order of Psychologists of Albania, Pan-African Psychology Union, Psychological Association of Namibia, Psychological Society of Kenya, Seoul National University, Spanish Psychological Association, Sri Lanka Psychological Association, Swedish Psychological Association, Uganda Council of Psychologists, Uruguayan Psychological Association and Zanzibar Professional Counselors Association.
Source: https://www.psychologyandglobalhealth.org
The American Psychological Association press release is available here.
I hope this proclamation is just empty words, because it is horrifying to consider the possibility a distressed person seeking help from a psychology professional might have their trust abused by a climate fanatic.
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“Psychologists go insane en masse”
A truly Orwellian headline
This would be funny if it were not true. The stuff of late night comedy.
Psychologists are known to become psychologists because of their own mental problems 😀
Is science becoming just another political tool?
“Is science becoming just another political tool?”
Did you like miss the entire 20th century or something?
Judge psychologists by their kids.
My Psych 101 prof agreed that the field attracted people who needed it. He said that as they learn more about it (and themselves), they generally dropped out.
That was true once, but not now. Recently, schools with Psych Depts removed the former requirement for 20 (sometimes more) hours of therapy to receive a degree. The required therapy hours have been gradually reduced to zero and are now merely “highly recommended.”
Curricula are designed so that almost no one flunks out in their first year. The second year consists largely of group projects, letting incompetents ride the coattails of better students. The requirement for x hours of internship can be gotten around. One Freudian professional admitted to me that a friend signed off on his hours without them actually being put in.
The field is in desperate trouble and they can’t (won’t) see it. Sick behaviors are being normalized. This so-called “Proclamation” is highly unscientific and unprofessional, the ultimate result of the lowering of educational standards. The danger is real and frightening.
Classic denial. They need therapy !
Classic projection. They need therapy !
Apart from their obvious inability to see their own moral corruption and incompetence in stepping outside their field of expertise into fields in which they are totally incompetent and ill-equipped, this is more than Orwellian and stinks strongly of the worst years of Stalinist Russia.
Doubtless they will soon be wanting to send “climate deeenierz” to goulags in Siberia ( or norther Alaska/Canada ) for “corrective therapy”.
They definitely need therapy.
This is not funny – this is no comedy. Calculated, deliberate brainwashing is no joke. This is Orwell “1984” stuff.
Interesting that one country not on that list is Russia. I guess they have seen enough of what happens when psychologists play politics.
If it were real science the Alarmists wouldn’t need psychologists. There is no greater evidence that CAGW is not based in real science than these social sciences attempts to prop it up as a hobgoblin.
Well, that just does it for me!!! Now the shrinks are going to rearrange OUR thinking about climate issues for us!
This is when I want to start stockpiling snowballs in my freezer – the chest freezer, not the fridge freezer – and lob them at brick walls, because this has gotten completely out of hand when shrinks stick their idiotic oars into this ridiculous mess.
Gaaahhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I feel much better now. 🙂
Stock up on bullets, not snow balls. You may need them.
I really do feel much better now. Venting Is Good!!!
As someone notes below, those who could be brainwashed/converted have already reached that destination.
Anyone besides me wonder how they’ll deal with FEET of snow in the city streets? Anyone? Bueller?
Nah, didn’t think so.
Ice fishing will start as soon as the ice is thick enough to hold an ice fisher’s house with all its STUFF.
Those ice fishing “towns” I see on lakes in Wisconsin and Minnesota are crazy. I do not understand ice fishing. Is it therapy or madness?
Could be another form of “man caves”. And beer…..
You probably don’t understand “tailgate parties” either, ……. do you?
It’s a chance to get out of the house while The Signifcant Other is busy cleaning, have some “man cave time”, stay warm and maybe bring some lake trout home for supper tomorrow night. But it is not really about the fishing. It’s about all that other stuff.
You’d have to be nuts to see one of these quacks.
They have the idea that they are a huge brainwashing operation and it’s their duty to do this. WOW.
Commenters here are getting all bent out of shape about a development that is completely predictable –
of course the psychos unions will jump on any opportunity to open up a taxpayer-funded channel of extra business – climate psychosis.
That’s what industry associations do. What’s the surprise?
“of course the psychos unions will jump on any opportunity to open up a taxpayer-funded channel of extra business – climate psychosis. ”
YUP, exactly right, and thus every school in the US public school system will be mandated to have a full-time Psychologist for taking care of/treating the CAGWCC “brainwashed” fears of the students.
Correct! Never met a psychologist that didn’t need to see a psychiatrist!
We will be brainwashed….
Krishna Gans said, “We will be brainwashed….”
Not “will be”. The climate change/global warming brainwashing began decades ago.
Regards,
Bob
@Bob Tisdale
But not in such a professional way and frankly announced.
Bob Tisdale
I wouldn’t worry about these nutters. Everyone who could be brainwashed, has been brainwashed. What they’re petrified of is that sceptics like us are gradually persuading their flocks.
They’re also in a mad panic in case the climate changes, which will happen, but I don’t suppose we’ll see much change other than a gradual dip in global temperatures over the next decade or two.
What will damage them badly is climate change fatigue. Particularly after the last year or two of ‘peak hysteria’. I mean, really, where do they go now? They have told us everything’s going belly up in the next 10 years – again.
But this time they have all the brainwashed youth following them. Remember, when this all started, most of us on here were fairly long in the tooth. Now they have the problem with millennial’s realising that nothing has changed in 20 years of their life, and when they get to 40, they’ll be asking the questions we did, but there will be a lot more of them, and they will rebel, like all of us did at some time in our lives.
Something like when I was a kid in the early 70’s when our local Loch froze over every winter and we could all skate on it. I realised the climate was changing in the mid to late 70’s when that stopped happening.
The next round will be when these kids, many of them our kids, look back and say “what happened to our long hot summers?” and “I don’t remember my folks power being cut when the wind dropped”.
And I kind of console myself by looking at the positives. While our politicians are distracted by climate change, it means they’re not contemplating another global war. They can’t figure out what to do next because there isn’t much to do now that every civilised nation has recovered from WW1 and WW2.
On the other hand, everyone loves building something and having that common objective. So of course when there’s nothing left to build the left swoops in and tells everyone how much better life could be if we were only to accept that everything will be better if only we all share our wealth around.
They persuade people the objective is to build a kinder, gentler society when in reality, their objective is to subjugate everyone. Tragically, they are ideologically idiotic enough to actually believe their own publicity. They haven’t a clue what they are doing, but don’t ever believe it will turn out like all the other times before because ‘their plan is much better this time’. But ask them what their plan is and they haven’t a clue.
Which rather gets away from my point that it will be our revolting youth that drags us out of this. And, frankly, not much of what we as sceptics have done will make much difference because it would happen anyway, because the climate changes.
And will we bear any guilt? Well of course not, other than for saying “I told you so” and having the gumption to have a nice big shiny diesel generator in our former garage.
HotScot, I’m not worried.
Regards,
Bob
HS, I want to know what you are drinking. Is is something like my favorite Lochan Ora, which is not longer available?
The several younger generations are caught up in the phenomenon of the “History of Now” which is more than just “if it didn’t happen during my lifetime it didn’t happen”; they have the ability to erase and replace previous indoctrinations with the latest.
That means the Alarmists can get away with scares about Global Warming, and when that didn’t happen, Climate Change, and when that wasn’t alarming enough, Climate Disaster. Still didn’t work, so you go to Climate Emergency/Crisis and show that every extreme weather event (that has occurred since recorded time) is now proof, and no one blinks an eye.
When Progressives can get these previous generations (in the US) to prefer Socialism and Communism to Capitalism, despite clear history, the die has been cast.
I am afraid that “climate change fatigue” is analogous to “odor fatigue”; and instead of getting tired of the smell, over time they are inured and take it as a given part of life, along with its associated remedial policies.
BTW, I still have 1/3 of a bottle of that favorite concoction and I will down a few fingers tonight as a salute to you and your valuable posts to this site.
Slainte!
I guess the next desperate level of mass hysteria propaganda from the alarmists will be “Climate Terrorism”. If you don’t go along with the alarmist mob, you must be a terrorist. Wait for it.
The youts may be walking around wall-eyed scared and convinced they’re living in one of their dystopian novels (yet another form of nihilist agitprop), but I don’t see ANY of them going off the grid and living like the Amish or 11th-century Celts. It’s just a fashionable “cause” for the Patagonia-puffers who want to identify as “woke;” requiring ZERO personal change or sacrifice.
George
Well, they did a pretty goo, if not as thorough a job in the 70’s with global cooling. Now we laugh about it.
The same will happen with the millennials. As importantly, when they are being financially squeezed by governments on the basis of a changing climate they don’t see, other than it possibly cooling, they will ask questions when they can’t feed their kids or pay for a roof over their head.
As they are driven further and further into penury and the elite are seen living the high life, resentment builds and belief evaporates.
It’s happening already in France and Chile. I suspect Brexit has given cover to UK efforts to shape the climate future but when the dam breaks it will be big.
The natural desire of youth is to question authority. As it is millennial’s are still too young, and the indoctrination is not yet fully established. Once it is though, they will, as we did, question why they should follow the rules.
It might not manifest itself in ways we expect, but it will manifest itself.
HotScot – “……….we’ll [probably not] see much change other than a gradual dip in global temperatures over the next decade or two”. The cyclical ups and downs we have observed during this interglacial usually last some hundred years : one would expect this warm period to extend a little while longer longer; perhaps even get a bit warmer.
Welcome to the re-education camps. Sends chills down my spine
All I can do is laugh, and these people think they can help others with mental issues 🙂
They can’t even help themselves.
Sometimes I think there must be some SciFi-infective ET-alien worm that has burrowed into their skulls invaded their brains to send them off the rails. Then nutters want to spread their nut-case alarmism through the entire population since for decades everyone ignored their stupid climate change crisis junk. The climate change alarmists and their GND and other energy policies are the real threat to humanity.
”Sometimes I think there must be some SciFi-infective ET-alien worm that has burrowed into their skulls invaded their brains to send them off the rails.”
”Don’t be trapped by old concepts”………..
Joel – That ET-alien worm has seemingly infected the part of their brains that understood science and replaced it with consensus-swallowing mush. Should I ever require the services of a Psychologist, I will find a way to discern their thoughts on GW/CC and use or not use their services based on their answer.
Bwahahahahahahahahahaha!!!
Every morning, I look outside and see no scary weather/climate bogeyman showing up.
Mentally ill shrinks, helping their clients handle the horrors of crisp cool sunny days of Fall, with rain and snow to follow.
A word search on “Climate Crisis” gets 13 hits.
So Global Cooling, Nuclear Winter, Acid rain, The Ozone Hole, Global Warming, Climate Change – has now morphed into “The Climate Crisis”
Representative of the ‘long march through the institutions’ long regarded by authoritarians as the best way to achieve their ends.
Sadly, the process is nearing completion.
+10
The segregated re-education camps for Muslims in western China are also overwhelming supported with consensus…..by the communist party members.
Prepare Room 101 for new patients…
How do you tell a doctor in a madhouse? He is the one with keys.
…coming to a Google algorithm near you, brother.
I don’t think these “Psychologists” actually believe in Climate Change. It’s just a substrate for them to make money from people’s delusions.
Yup. All these professional “learned” societies think that they must have a position on the subject, or run the risk of missing the funding gravy train. To whit, they just regurgitate what every other organization churns out, possibly with a few extra embellishments that they thought up themselves.
…We are the Borg…you will assimilate ! Resistance is futile !!
The shrinks are always bonkers. Why do they think science is about consensus?
Because they’re in the Humanities Department.
I think they’ve just realized they had better make some money out of climate change before the game is up
Its very much the same in Australia with the APA coming up with something very similar a year or two ago. Psychology in general has a bit of an identity crisis anyway. They are desperate to be regarded as a hard science (hence the reliance on statistics), but due to the nature of the human condition a lot of qualitative variables are squashed into the quantitative category so numbers are more easily crunched.
Let alone the replication crisis that is going on.
But yes, I can only imagine triggering the psych by saying Hi I support Trump and Climate Change is a scam. In decades to come it will be off to the asylum/re-education camp.
The APS is a signatory. I wonder whether Naomi’s 100% fiction will be required reading.
“We will advocate for the rights of those most susceptible to the negative health, and mainly, mental health impacts of climate crisis, for example, by encouraging policymakers to fully fund programs to aid those who suffer harm from severe climate crisis-related events…..”
Fully fund programs. Ah, yeah. OK. Got it.
. . . encouraging policymakers to fully fund programs to aid those who suffer harm from severe climate crisis . . .
Yep – hat there’s the money shot, buried right down near the end of their proclamation.
My parents grew up in “war time Germany” (the n-word gets caught in moderation). Those deemed mentally ill for not going along with the majority consensus of the day did not fare well.
This is truly scary. What are these people thinking? -that they are the good guys here? And honestly, how many people get mentally ill from reading up data and deciding the “climate crisis” is bogus, versus those left depressed and suicidal because they truly believe the world is ending in 18 months or 3 years or whatever the latest doomsday deadline is?
Climate crisis, stop making stuff up.
“Physician, heal thyself” comes to mind.
I guess alarmist journalism isn’t creating whimpering clients fast enough …
“We will support the development of a public awareness campaign to encourage individuals and communities to adopt behaviors to help prepare for and recover from gradual climate change and acute climate crisis events;”
It appears they think adverse weather is an event caused by an acute climate crisis. This does not fit in any reasonable definition of climate. If they cannot understand what a climate is I would not ask them for help fixing fears of it.
I will maintain we must wage war with China and India to force them off of fossil fuels to save the climate. Nothing less will have any impact, so don’t ask me to support any policies unless that is included. If you don’t agree, you aren’t really serous about the situation – you’re a denier.
The ball is in your court.
So …. The American Psychological Association has abandoned whatever claims they had to being a “scientific” organization and have gone into the business of making Political Science Ads. One patient at a time.
OK.
But those that really care about their patients will deal with their “climate phobia” for what it really is, a fear based on falsehoods.
(Just how does The American Psychological Association elect it’s leaders? Maybe the members should pay more attention to those mailers!)
Previous story was titles “Climate Science has Died…” Seems like Psychology has also.
There is clearly a very good reason, why psychologists spend the bulk of their time in mental health asylums….they were made for each other.