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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They would like to give us skeptics beneficial electro-shock therapy made famous in the movie “One flew over the cuckoos nest” and then it will be easier to pick out pockets.
Notice how they want to focus attention on skeptics so that they will not have to sacrifice any luxuries.
These are probably the same people who think that people should not be allowed to receive any help from psychologists if they have unwanted same-sex attraction.
They are probably the same people who think that young children should be encouraged to change their sexual appearance if they show any interest in that area.
They are driven by a certain ideology . In one case it is climate alarmism. In another it is gender theory. Both are deeply harmful.
@jtom
“The ball is in your court.”
You are offside, game over 😀
Superstition:
Someone should do a study of the prevalence of superstition among psychologists.
I actually thought their logo said “American Psychopathic Association” when I first glanced at it! I’m still not sure if that’s what it should be or not! Glad I live in a rural area where we can see the climate change every day!
Today is sunny and 70 degrees! Tomorrow it’s supposed to snow here! THAT’s climate change! All I’ll need to survive tomorrow will be a heavier coat, and crank the gas fireplace up a notch, NOT a psychologist to visit me in my safe space!
The simple fact is, climate change has NEVER been about science…it has ALWAYS been about psychology. Of course psychology has never been a science and never will be.
Al Gore, Saying “What The Hell?,” Throws Hat Into 2020 Race
https://extranewsfeed.com/al-gore-saying-what-the-hell-throws-hat-into-2020-race-a55b894107b5
“Jan 30 · 2 min read”
“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.”
— Charles Mackay
Great googly moogly. Will the phrenologists will jump on the bandwagon next?
This is why I was offered up to $400 an hour to help de-brainwash a child of one of my customers. They knew better than I did at the time; keep away from the psychs. (I helped get the kid through and charged $0.)
The contagion propagates……..
Catastrofascism.
They will holler and carry on with whatever scare tactics they can come out with to get us to declare defacto marshal law via the declaration of a “climate emergency” to “combat” the “problem” which they claim exists-a blank cheque in terms of power and money.
The whole thing is a ruse to deceive the People in to relinquishing their freedom and wealth. The consequences of giving the deceivers such power are straight out of Revelation. It will be an apocalypse of unprecedented slaughter and barbarity.
It is up to us to wake the sleeping sheeple before we all get rounded up for the slaughter. With the ramping up of catastrophism to almost “critical” on their meter (the next and final stages are enforcement by violence followed military enforcement.) Ironically, the catastrophists are at their most vulnerable at the current hysteria stage. Put them on the spot- do you really believe that the world will end in 1 year, 1 month and 11 days? Does this belief justify declaring a state of emergency and thus marshal law? Will you stake your reputation on this?
For those that pray to God, an additional prayer for special protection for Donald Trump is required-he appears to be the only thing standing between sanity and global insanity. Little wonder those that are trying to enslave all of us go hysterical about him. They smear those they fear.
“We will advocate for Universities and other entities could include…”
Speak English much?
And why start sentences with “Whereas”.
They need lessons in clear and concise professional writing.
Why “WHEREAS”?
They are trying to get a writer job in the UN.
I’m not sure that many of these “Psyscologists” were much in evidence when the Soviet Union routinely used imprisonment in mental asylums to secure dissidents.
But they are strongly signalling that they will be more than happy to “re-educate” skeptics in future, whenever our beloved leaders wish.
“Just swallow these nice pills, you’ll be much happier!”
It seems to be a typo in “DRAFT RESOLUTION”.
They surely meant :
DAFT RESOLUTION.
Fixed.
Since no branch of science is more rife with worthless research, unreproducible studies and ephemeral pop nonsense, it makes sense that psychologists would be most eager to defend the authority of scientific pronouncements.
I assume they are busily translating the many Soviet-era Russian textbooks of instruction to help them in their quest for right-thinking.
Back then doctors also supported the mighty state ideology. Some even carried experiences in that sense. Or correctively eliminated what they deemed unfit for the nation.
Hanging those criminals at a later point didn’t however resuscitate their victims.
History is a wheel. That’s why those who claim climate nonsense also lobby for gun control. Looks like they learned from past mistakes. Not the happy to oblige mases who vote their own destruction.
Interesting that the Germans signed right up. Think they might be a little more hesitant after their experience with National Socialism. Some of their members were leading exponents of the eugenics policy.
Planned population, yes. Also, clinical cannibalism, color judgments (“diversity”), political congruence, redistributive change, class privilege, and social justice, too. They were advanced administrators, scientists, and engineers, with a highly secular outlook.
Now, the psychos are bent on normalizing climate change conversion therapy.
They’ve not considerered the effect of this on their yearly, ‘fly-in’ conferences.
These are a bunch of quacks who have destroyed a significant part of their putative profession’s income. All those who are members of this group, and most of those who aren’t, are DOA as expert witnesses in court. Competent trial attorneys will use this crap to destroy their attempts to qualify as experts.
Plus this professional association’s messy suicide will lead to significant loss of income from prospective patients who are afraid the association’s association with junk science means they can’t give competent advice or treatment. That is most of their income.
Which will start the positive feedback effects as psychologists become more and more dependent on government income, which means loss of professional independence and still more loss of public respect as they become mere mouthpieces of them that pays them. Eventually they’ll become mere painted bone rattlers justifying whatever opinions their bureaucratic superiors already have.
Since the NRA tried to explain to the medical world that gun ownership policy – the so called “gun control” policy area (although actual control of a gun involves hands and sight and thus really might be in the domain of expertise of physiology experts) – isn’t a medical field (unlike gun wounds treatment, obviously), the “regular” (physiology related, non shrinks, non “I choose that carier path to cure myself” types) medical associations went “full in” on “gun control”.
How come their members are not precluded from giving “expert” testimony, when they can’t seem to tell the emergency room from the Bill of Rights?
This is the same org thats now tring to mamstrea polyamory
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/american-psychological-association-pushes-polyamory/
Enough said, the nutters are running the asylm
It took 5 seconds to find this quote again–
“A surprising number of psychology studies can’t be reproduced. A huge, collaborative research project attempted to recreate 100 studies that were recently published in major psychology journals, and it found that only 39 of those studies’ results could be replicated. ”
Why would 61%-failure-psychologists even speak?? Why are they insane enough to still draw attention to themselves? It would seem that any group that grows large enough to become its own echo chamber no longer can hear anything but themselves. So as they go insane, they go insane together with mutual support.
Thank you, Eric.
I see the Australian group signed up.
My immediate and strong reaction was that that act of signing and releasing was no more than a threat that a body was planning to interfere in my private life.
Lawyers present – what hurdled are crossed, in the eyes of a prosecutor, when a matter ceases to become gossip among chums, to organised criminality? Geoff S
Pretty much everyone signed up, sadly. It will be interesting to see where this leads – by making this commitment psychologists might be opening themselves to the mother of future lawsuits, if someone feels their therapist’s inappropriate climate behavioural advice messed up their life by say leading to them getting a criminal record.