If you Thought Climate Grief was Strange, Meet the Climate Grief Therapists

Anxiety solution and freedom from fear and escape from tortured thinking and depression concept as a group of tangled barbwire or barbed wire fence shaped as a human head breaking free as a metaphor for psychological or psychiatric icon.

Guest essay by Eric Worrall

If someone is no longer able to function due to their “pre-traumatic” climate grief, a plethora of therapists are offering therapies ranging from “The Great Turning,” a societal transformation from an industrial, growth, and consumer-based society to a more equitable and sustainable one, to collapse-transcendence (fostering psycho-social-spiritual-cultural shifts to accept and live through collapse with some composure and stability).

Group Interventions for Climate Change Distress 

December 11, 2020
Beth Mark, MD , Janet Lewis, MD

From disasters and social disruptions to existential concerns, climate distress groups may not only provide much-needed support to patients but may also help psychiatry’s public health responses. 

The climate crisis presents unique and complex challenges to the mental health and wellness of individuals and communities. The need for interventions at a global scale increasingly leads mental health providers to look toward large group interventions. This article outlines a number of the more popular group approaches. It informs psychiatrists about the climate distress groups that our patients may access and advances our understanding of these groups’ methods, which may help psychiatry’s own public health response.

The Work That Reconnects (TWTR) is an approach developed by Joanna Macy, PhD, and is described as a “transformative learning process.”9 TWTR incorporates aspects of deep ecology, systems theory, eco-psychology, Buddhism, and activism. … Instead of turning away from the problem, group members reframe and honor their feelings, and then develop fresh perspectives intended to bring about “The Great Turning,” a societal transformation from an industrial, growth, and consumer-based society to a more equitable and sustainable one.

The Deep Adaptation Forum was developed by Jem Bendell, PhD, after the publication of his paper “Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy,”12 which went viral. Deep Adaptation (DA) positions itself outside of mainstream work on climate adaptation in that it assumes inevitable societal breakdown and collapse due to climate change and intentionally challenges the idea that hope should be part of climate change adaptation.

DA seeks to develop so-called collapse-readiness (ie, creating an equitable system for distribution of life essentials such as food, water, energy, and health care) and collapse-transcendence(fostering psycho-social-spiritual-cultural shifts to accept and live through collapse with some composure and stability).

Read more: https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/group-interventions-climate-change-distress

No doubt climate grief suffers will achieve a happier, more adjusted mental state after being offered a choice between accepting the end of the world with a smile, or ditching capitalism and embracing a simple communal sharing mentality.

Interestingly many group leaders advocating rejection of consumerism and acceptance of the coming climate catastrophe appear to accept payment for the services they provide. No doubt the act of handing over money helps propel the healing transformation from consumerist obsessed climate guilt to a simpler more positive mental outlook which involves owning less stuff.

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Dennis G Sandberg
December 13, 2020 2:23 pm

“No doubt climate grief suffers will achieve a happier, more adjusted mental state after”… experiencing the excess debt driven hyperinflation that will drive us into a prolonged and deep recession that Harris/Biden/Kerry have in store for us. A little reality should cure the phobia.

Mr.
Reply to  Dennis G Sandberg
December 13, 2020 4:07 pm

Yep.
Maybe the therapy sessions should start with this reality declaration –
“The first thing to realize about life is – none of us are coming out of this alive”

Everything should fall into perspective after acceptance of this reality.

RicDre
Reply to  Dennis G Sandberg
December 13, 2020 5:52 pm

“A little reality should cure the phobia.”

Maybe, but it seems more likely that they would just blame “a prolonged and deep recession” on climate change and get even more depressed.

Sara
Reply to  Dennis G Sandberg
December 14, 2020 4:52 am

“…offered a choice between accepting the end of the world with a smile, or ditching capitalism…” Okay, that means that they have to permanently give up all their electronic toys and comm devices, and live the primitive lives that those distant hunter-gatherers lived. And they have to stick with it, permanently.

Aha! A new permaculture, concocted out of dust bunnies and leftover cracker crumbs! They’ll have to learn everything retro including washing all their clothing by hand and hanging it to dry, even when the weather is freezing.

Hmmmm…. I wonder just how long any of them would really last.

Neo
Reply to  Sara
December 14, 2020 6:13 am

They’ll have to learn everything retro including washing all their clothing by hand and hanging it to dry …

Can’t have that .. water vapor is a major GHG

Sara
Reply to  Neo
December 14, 2020 8:18 am

Yahbbut, they won’t be using clothes dryers, and it takes a while to dry clothing on the clothesline, so that nasty greenhouse gas won’t be visible to them. It’ll be a miracle! The water will just disappear to some place unknown, and the laundry will be dry!!!

That’s unless, of course, it’s winter and the washing hung out to dry freezes instead. That was always fun, but I earned $.50 for hanging laundry every week, and nobody minded if the shirts froze stiff. You had to be there….

Gary Pearse
Reply to  Sara
December 14, 2020 9:39 pm

Sara, I’m from Winnipeg and can assure you clothes dry very well on the line in crisp cold weather (grew up in the 40s and 50s). My mother washed clothes in the bathtub, and the kids helped wring them by hand (there were ‘wringer washers’ but we didnt have one) and then out to hang clothes, sheets, etc on the line. For the first half hour or so, the bedsheets were like sheets of plywood but, they soon dried.

Bill Powers
Reply to  Sara
December 14, 2020 6:19 am

The first thing that should occur to them, Sara, is that while trees are renewable they won’t grow at a sufficient pace to keep up with their new rate of consumption. These basement dwellers have no idea what they are advocating. I guess they think they will just stay in their parents basement with free room and board and the heat will magically come out of the air vents on cloudy windless winter days.

IF they only knew how much CO2 their mobile phones and social media require. Then realize how much stress and anxiety they could relieve by turning the damn things off to go fly a kite. Which is what I suggest they do every time they start up on how I am killing the planet.

Sara
Reply to  Sara
December 14, 2020 8:03 am

I can’t stop giggling at the whole idea that any of them think it’s vaguely possible to go off the electric grid and still survive. If it’s true that they electricity comes out of wall plugs (and some of them do so), they are not going to do well at all…. and I won’t feel sorry for them, nor will I feed them if they wander into my camp.

Is it TWO generations now that think supply of “stuff” is endless? Yeah, well, I also cook… from scratch.

There is some hope, despite the silliness: I see plenty of people who are not like that at all. Therefore, they’ll survive and the rest will just sort of fade into bird songs and firefly signals. There are two sides to that coin, one of which is the side that is not like that at all.

Oh, wait! I know how it turns out!

The crop of ecohippies and greenbeaners that think the world is doomed will end up in walled cities and never venture outside, and the rest of us will be busy hunting, gathering, making stuff that’s useful outside those walls.

Reply to  Sara
December 14, 2020 11:16 am

they have to permanently give up all their electronic toys and comm devices, and live the primitive lives that those distant hunter-gatherers lived

Most of them couldn’t last a week.

Reply to  Sara
December 14, 2020 3:17 pm

I call it the dreamy dream for “The Peaceful Tribe with iPhones.”

DER
December 13, 2020 2:36 pm

I am still laughing especially at the following ad. And not to make light as there are and should be areas we need to work with as a society!! But the politics being presented and panic producing plots are not helping!!

December 13, 2020 2:47 pm

Can I get a “stimulus” check from the US Federal government for Climate Grief ™ therapy.

Should take less than 100 sessions . . . and the money would certainly stimulate me.

MarkW
December 13, 2020 2:49 pm

The only thing psychologists are unable to prove, is there own sanity.

jorgekafkazar
Reply to  MarkW
December 13, 2020 6:35 pm

No problemo. The APA will simply declare all their neuroses, disorders, and complexes normal in DSM6. Bingo! Sane.

MarkH
December 13, 2020 2:54 pm

All those research titles are very Sokalian, so they even realise how much they parody themselves?

In all seriousness though, all of this is one huge control experiment. They are using fear to control people and it works. As Frank Herbert said: Fear is the mind killer. Anyone telling you to be afraid is trying to control you.

Living in a constant state of fear is very bad for your health. But the solution is definitely not to learn how to fully live Big Brother.

December 13, 2020 2:56 pm

“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

Mr.
Reply to  Shoki Kaneda
December 13, 2020 4:11 pm

MacKay should be compulsory reading at all levels of education.
If students have to start at year 3, and read MacKay every year until graduation, the world might have a chance at rationality some time in the distant future.

Tom Abbott
Reply to  Shoki Kaneda
December 14, 2020 5:31 am

“it will be seen that they go mad in herds”

I think that is what we are looking at here. And include the psychologists in the herd.

I wonder if all this destruction pleases The Climategate Charlatans?

The psychologists should be pointing the finger at the Climategate Charlatans as being the cause of all this mental illness. Climategate Charlantan Lies are the cause of the CO2-phobia.

The psychologists need to cure themselves of their own delusions about CO2 before they can heal others. Physician, heal thyself. Read WUWT. That’s the therapy that is needed.

Russell Cook
December 13, 2020 3:06 pm

If these therapists didn’t inform their patients about the existence of skeptic climate scientists and science-based sources of AGW skeptic info like WUWT which could have alleviated their patients’ anxiety, could they be hit with some kind of medical malpractice lawsuit?

John Sandhofner
December 13, 2020 3:08 pm

We had better hope this feeling of despondence about the future is not shared by the majority of today’s youth. It is absolutey sinful how things like this are being used to rob today’s youth’s hope. No wonder suicide has increased when you see nothing but hopelessness in the future.

HD Hoese
Reply to  John Sandhofner
December 13, 2020 6:11 pm

Sigma Xi recommendations.
STEM BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS (older children)
“ Stand Up! Speak Up!: A Story Inspired by the Climate Change Revolution is about empowering kids to act.” https://www.americanscientist.org/blog/science-culture/science-book-gift-guide-2020
“Both my preschooler and my first-grader loved the girl’s story, and they have asked me to read it to them more than once.” Others seem not so bad as far as the titles go. On one on Rachel Carson— “At the end of the book is a brief section about the environmental movement today. Unfortunately, it fails to mention many important advocacy efforts of the past 15 years, including those led by young people, such as the Sunrise Movement.”

So American Scientist Editors are preaching advocacy for kids when they don’t even know how old they are at the same time they are violating the Sigma Xi constitution forbidding influencing legislation by raising money to send subscriptions to schools in states with legislation. I may, others possibly, have made an impact as they now omit (hiding?) from their solicitation the legislation subjects of climate change, evolution, and vaccines. They are getting some pushback from other members, including that they should resign, Lysenko brought up. They are lessening the value that many American Scientist articles have. Their current interest in diversity is with art and music, no offense to those in those professions. And of course the usual unscientific diversity.

ozspeaksup
Reply to  HD Hoese
December 14, 2020 4:08 am

need a follow on
shut up and sit down;-)))
you havent lived long enough to HAVE an opinion

Fran
Reply to  HD Hoese
December 14, 2020 9:15 am

Many years ago Sigma Xi was a real science education organization. One spectacular outing they hired a DC3 and flew a group of us from McGill to spend a day touring the Chalk River nuclear plant. An amazing day!

ozspeaksup
Reply to  John Sandhofner
December 14, 2020 4:07 am

an adelaide sth aus uni acting course…was pilloroed for NOT being activist enough in their online Advertiser paper today..
yes all the kids are /have been scared witless for the last 20 yrs or more
which is why absolute drivel like the psyh mobs above even exist!!

Med Bennett
December 13, 2020 3:08 pm

The high in Boulder, CO was 27°F – do you have a directory of climate grief counselors? Maybe I could find somebody to talk to about my existential angst- it should have been much colder today.

eck
Reply to  Med Bennett
December 13, 2020 6:40 pm

Get out for the winter. My Boulder bro is leaving Tues. to winter near Tucson. ):

Med Bennett
Reply to  eck
December 13, 2020 10:40 pm

I have a kid in school still or I’d be out of here ASAP!

ColMosby
December 13, 2020 3:08 pm

The simplest solution would be to convince these morons that they know nothing about global warming and there is nothing “equitable” about where the electricity you use comes from.

December 13, 2020 3:12 pm

Climate anxiety is reportedly a serious problem among children. Our schools have been active in spreading this false alarm. I have written several missives to the Alberta Teachers Association and the Alberta Minster of Education, strongly advising against this harmful and unscientific nonsense.

Both have yet to reply in a rational manner – we are governed (and our children are taught) buy scoundrels and imbeciles.

Derg
December 13, 2020 3:12 pm

“Interestingly many group leaders advocating rejection of consumerism and acceptance of the coming climate catastrophe appear to accept payment for the services they provide.”

Do you think the irony is lost on the Simon, Ghalfrunt, Lyodo….

Derg
Reply to  Eric Worrall
December 13, 2020 3:40 pm

You are most likely right, regardless it was a brilliant sentence!

OldGreyGuy
Reply to  Derg
December 13, 2020 4:18 pm

I think I need to throw in my job and start running Climate Grief Therapy Bootcamps.

Maybe if these people have to start the day on a 10K run through the snow they may stop worrying about an small amount of warming?

Fraizer
Reply to  Derg
December 13, 2020 11:09 pm

You forgot Griff. Griff needs this therapy ASAP or, maybe he is one of the therapists? OIt’s all so confusing. I blame climate change.

Sara
Reply to  Derg
December 14, 2020 4:57 am

Well, what happens when these now-children find out in 30 to 40 years that they were lied to all along?

Riots, vandalism, cities burning…. oh, wait. That was this past summer, on a different subject.

EOM
Reply to  Sara
December 14, 2020 5:15 am

They will never know they were lied to. As Mark Twain pointed out, it is far easier to fool people than it is to convince them that they were fooled. The 20th Century and the beginning of this century establish that.

Tom Abbott
Reply to  Sara
December 14, 2020 5:43 am

“Well, what happens when these now-children find out in 30 to 40 years that they were lied to all along?”

That’s my question, too. Eventually, this is going to happen. When is the question. Probably not before many Trillions of dollars are wasted trying to fix a CO2 problem that does not exist.

The temperatures over the next decade ought to tell the tale. Although, if it does get colder, the alarmists have already said a decade or two of colder weather does not disprove their Human-caused Climate Change claims. So they think they are covered no matter which way the temperatures go. It must be nice to be able to have your cake and eat it, too. If you can swing it, which in this case will be easier said than done. CO2 going up while temperatures are going down is not a good look for the alarmists.

Laertes
December 13, 2020 3:35 pm

“intentionally challenges the idea that hope should be part of climate change adaptation”

Because making people feel despair is such a lovely thing to do and not something a genuinely evil, twisted and malevolent person would do. Is this a breach of professional ethics? Disgusting.

Klem
December 13, 2020 3:46 pm

I hope these therapists make a killing.

Never disrespect someone’s hustle.
– Xzibit

ZenitFan
Reply to  Klem
December 14, 2020 4:00 am

“Make a killing” — literally.

Since eco-freaks believe humans are a cancer on the planet, I have long recommended that they lead by example and kill themselves. These therapists could go a long way in culling that herd.

rhs
December 13, 2020 4:00 pm

Unless these Grief Therapists are in touch with their inner Sam Kennison, they’re over rated.

December 13, 2020 4:20 pm

Let’s see this list of Chinese Communist Party members in the West. Let’s compare it with the Deloitte list of leftist activists who have been bribed with $1billion of foreign money to sabotage the Canadian economy – a list the Alberta government received on 31Jan2020 and still has not released.

How many influential Canadian politicians, government workers, teachers and corporate employees are on one or both lists?

Why won’t the Alberta government release the Deloitte bribes list? What are they hiding?

Americans should be asking the same questions and one more – how many Democratic Party members, government workers, teachers, etc. are also members of the Chinese Communist Party?
_____________________________

MAJOR LEAK ‘EXPOSES’ MEMBERS AND ‘LIFTS THE LID’ ON THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY
https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6215946537001
13December2020
See also:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9046783/Leaked-files-expose-mass-infiltration-UK-firms-Chinese-Communist-Party.html
https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-huge-data-leak-exposes-chinese-communist-party-members-embedded-in-western-companies-and-governments

A major leak containing a register with the details of nearly two million CCP members has occurred – exposing members who are now working all over the world, while also lifting the lid on how the party operates under Xi Jinping, says Sharri Markson.

Ms Markson said the leak is a register with the details of Communist Party members, including their names, party position, birthday, national ID number and ethnicity.

“It is believed to be the first leak of its kind in the world,” the Sky News host said.

“What’s amazing about this database is not just that it exposes people who are members of the communist party, and who are now living and working all over the world, from Australia to the US to the UK,” Ms Markson said.

“But it’s amazing because it lifts the lid on how the party operates under President and Chairman Xi Jinping”.

Ms Markson said the leak demonstrates party branches are embedded in some of the world’s biggest companies and even inside government agencies.

“Communist party branches have been set up inside western companies, allowing the infiltration of those companies by CCP members – who, if called on, are answerable directly to the communist party, to the Chairman, the president himself,” she said.

“Along with the personal identifying details of 1.95 million communist party members, mostly from Shanghai, there are also the details of 79,000 communist party branches, many of them inside companies”.

Ms Markson said the leak is a significant security breach likely to embarrass Xi Jinping.

“It is also going to embarrass some global companies who appear to have no plan in place to protect their intellectual property from theft. From economic espionage,” she said.

Ms Markson said the data was extracted from a Shanghai server by Chinese dissidents, whistleblowers, in April 2016, who have been using it for counter-intelligence purposes.

“It was then leaked in mid-September to the newly-formed international bi-partisan group, the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China – and that group is made up of 150 legislators around the world.

“It was then provided to an international consortium of four media organisations, The Australian, The Sunday Mail in the UK, De Standaard in Belgium and a Swedish editor, to analyse over the past two months, and that’s what we’ve done”.

Ms Markson said it, “is worth noting that there’s no suggestion that these members have committed espionage – but the concern is over whether Australia or these companies knew of the CCP members and if so have any steps been taken to protect their data and people”.

Sommer
Reply to  ALLAN MACRAE
December 13, 2020 6:28 pm

Is it possible that wind projects throughout five eyes countries are part of an agenda to industrialize rural communities and make them uninhabitable, in preparation for a form of colonization/ ‘land grab’ in order to get land for growing food for China?

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256016776_China%27s_Impact_on_the_Global_Wind_Power_Industry

PaulH
December 13, 2020 4:47 pm

The crisis is phony but, unfortunately, the psychological impact appears to be real. There is no shortage of these “rent-a-friends” willing to step in for a price, of course.

Robert of Texas
December 13, 2020 4:50 pm

This is called a cult. It doesn’t have to make sense.

Mr.
December 13, 2020 4:53 pm

MacKay should be compulsory reading at all levels of education.
If students have to start at year 3, and read MacKay every year until graduation, the world might have a chance at rationality some time in the distant future.

Steven Curtis Lohr
December 13, 2020 4:59 pm

So, if a therapist reinforces the pathological ideation and therefore prolonging the state of neurotic confusion, that’s malpractice. There are criminals among us who will stop at nothing. A sociopathic therapist is the most dangerous of the dangerous. What ever happened to do no harm? MD? I think not.

d
December 13, 2020 5:23 pm

Consider the moral priorities of a therapist whose ideology is based on the concept that there are too many people.

December 13, 2020 5:46 pm

At least we can tell PTEditor@mmhgroup.com what we think. As someone with experience in climate alarmism de-brainwashing, I will certainly do so. I have made several responses to a number of these climate carpetbaggers, and have not received any replies. The interventions I do are all pro bono. I guess I might need to do more, if there is going to be a nasty outbreak of “Great Turnings”, or “Collapse-Transcendence”.

n.n
December 13, 2020 5:56 pm

Sustainable? Save a bird, a bat, whack a wind turbine. Clear the photovoltaic pollution from the land and Green blight on the environment. Throw another baby on the barbie, redistribute… cannibalize her profitable parts, and sequester her carbon ashes. Carbon offsets are for flippant bigots who don’t care about Gaia, flora, and fauna. Kneel before Stork with a liberal revelry and gay countenance. #WickedSolutions

n.n
December 13, 2020 5:58 pm

Does the therapist exact reparations or do they self-flagellate?

Alan
December 13, 2020 6:11 pm

Interestingly many group leaders advocating rejection of consumerism and acceptance of the coming climate catastrophe appear to accept payment for the services they provide.
Of course. How else are they gonna pay for their beach from mansion?

MarkW
Reply to  Alan
December 14, 2020 8:30 am

They won’t have to pay for it. It will be given to them free by a grateful government that has been voted complete control of everything by the now terrified populace.

eck
December 13, 2020 6:21 pm

Good grief! This “Climate Emergency” scam is really getting out of hand. The lunacy. And, of course, with every scam, there are those that seek to profit from it – “snake oil”. In this case it’s apparently some psychiatrists.

December 13, 2020 6:22 pm

When I see people driving alone in their cars with a COVID mask on, I know they also must be the same ones soiling their bedsheets over climate grief. And I see plenty of people wearing masks alone in their cars.
So hey if you’re starving psychotherapist, why not capitalize on that widespread ignorance?

Reply to  Joel O'Bryan
December 13, 2020 7:19 pm

If several stores are on my itinerary I don’t bother to take it off between stores.

Robert of Texas
Reply to  Joel O'Bryan
December 13, 2020 8:32 pm

I am occasionally one of those people you see… LOL

I forget I am wearing it! Going from one place to another in short hops. I also forget to put it on and have to return to my truck to get it. So go easy on us old folks!

Reply to  Robert of Texas
December 14, 2020 12:22 am

Robert (and Steve). I understand your justification, the way I understand, say, FaceTwatGram videos of gang rape. By looking at them, you condone them. If you were not subservient to the wishes of the Bolshevik scamsters, you would detest every second that nappy hangs on your face. There is no forgetting about displaying a symbol of oppression on your own face.
So you guys do not see the facenappy as a symbol of oppression? Okay by me, just take note, you are setting an example to the children, and your example of stupid servitude sucks. Because of your servile compliance, the disciples of Baal Gates see opportunity to victimise those who try to live like free humans in a system run by psychotic mafias teaching our children they are unwanted parasites on Baal’s earth.
Old folks should know better!

Sara
Reply to  paranoid goy
December 14, 2020 5:17 pm

Well, that’s fine, paranoid guy, but I’ve found that they reduce the dust flow from the cat boxes when I clean them and that means I don’t have to inhale cat box dust and get my lungs contaminated with it. Silicosis is not a joke. People contracted it during the Dust Bowl years and there is no cure for it.

But that’s one of several reasons I wear one at all, other than not having the paranoids screaming bloody murder at me when I go to the grocery store. Another good reason is that spray painting stupid things like screen frames can get paint particles into your breathing apparatus, so a mask is a good idea.

Any questions?

fred250
Reply to  Joel O'Bryan
December 13, 2020 11:31 pm

I wore a mask the other day…

Belt sanding Silky Oak timber….. you really need one !!

eyesonu
Reply to  fred250
December 14, 2020 3:17 am

I’ve been wearing them for years while bush hogging broom straw and sawing treated lumber. Problem arises when need to wear safety glasses and a mask as the mask causes the glasses to fog. So I’d rather sniff a little dust when using the chain saw rather than be blind!

fred250
Reply to  eyesonu
December 14, 2020 9:02 pm

Wipe some spit on the inside of the safety glasses.

Or get some “anti-fog” from your local motorbike shop.

Bruce Cobb
December 13, 2020 6:50 pm

What they need is an intervention, and de-programming.

Tom Abbott
Reply to  Bruce Cobb
December 14, 2020 5:50 am

Exactly, Bruce!

Ed Zuiderwijk
December 14, 2020 1:39 am

Oxford Dictionary. Climate Grief Therapy: old Chinese art of taking money from gullibles.

fred250
December 14, 2020 3:18 am

I say, that if people really want to feel “grief” about”climate”

Just let them go for it. 🙂

Talk about making a virtual cross for their own little minds to carry !

And if that virtual cross becomes ALL TOO MUCH for their feeble minds to endure…..

…..well…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4uivPpzCGo

Lurker Pete
December 14, 2020 4:25 am

It’s no good just pointing out the lunacy of these people, you have to trace the source and point out where it comes from:

Joanna Macy, PhD – most renowned for her book Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World and the Great Turning initiative…

David C. Korten (born 1937) is an American author, former professor of the Harvard Business School, Korten’s 2006 book The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community…

Korten is co-founder and board chair of the Positive Futures Network, which publishes the quarterly YES! Magazine. He is also a founding board member, emeritus, of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, a former associate of the International Forum on Globalization, and a member of the Club of Rome…BOOM!

For more info on the Club of Rome Agenda research “The Great Reset”

Tom Abbott
Reply to  Lurker Pete
December 14, 2020 5:59 am

“It’s no good just pointing out the lunacy of these people, you have to trace the source and point out where it comes from”

I would point at the Climategate Charlatans and their Spawn as the source of the problem.

They are the ones that lied to all of us by using their computers to distort the historical temperature records to make it appear that the Earth’s temperatures are at the highest point in human history.

Nothing could be further from the truth, and the only “evidence” for this claim of unprecedented global warmth is from the distorted temperature record.

Written Regional surface temperature charts from around the world disagree with the claim that the Earth is experiencing the warmest temperatures in human history. According to written records, it is no warmer today than it was in the Early Twentieth Century, which means we are not experiencing unprecedented warming, which means CO2 is a minor player in the Earth’s atmosphere and is not the control knob for temperatures.

Lay that on your patients, Doctors. And on yourselves. CO2 is not a problem.

Lurker Pete
Reply to  Tom Abbott
December 14, 2020 7:53 am

Not digging deep enough Tom. The club of Rome is the horse, the Climategate Charlatans are just part of the cart.

Professor Schneider was among the earliest and most vocal proponents of man-made global warming and a lead author of many IPCC reports. He is a member of the Club of Rome.

“We’ve got to ride this global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental policy.”

“In searching for a common enemy against whom we can unite, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like, would fit the bill. In their totality and their interactions these phenomena do constitute a common threat which must be confronted by everyone together.” (The First Global Revolution – A Report by the Council of the Club of Rome. President Emeritus of the Club of Rome Alexander King and Secretary General Bertrand Schneider p.75)

fretslider
December 14, 2020 7:17 am

From disasters and social disruptions to existential concerns, climate distress groups may not only provide much-needed support to patients but may also help psychiatry’s public health responses. </i

Which should of course have read From wholly imaginary existential concerns, climate distress groups may not only provide much-needed support to each other’s delusions, but may also help psychiatry come up with ever more insane ideas.

The indoctrination has clearly worked. Everybody’s gone mental now.

Jeffery P
December 14, 2020 7:36 am

Therapy should help people deal with their fears. Especially irrational fears. That ain’t happening.

lee Riffee
December 14, 2020 8:03 am

So imagine if one of these therapists had a patient come to them and share their dread that they would turn into a werewolf upon the next full moon….. Instead of trying to help the person get beyond their delusion, the therapist would probably just tell them to go home and have a family member chain them up during the full moon! It is quite sad that today psychiatry and psychology do more reinforcing of delusions then they do of trying to convince patients that such ideas are indeed delusions and are not true. It’s a wonder that anorexia hasn’t been removed from the list of mental illnesses….

December 14, 2020 11:15 am

Proof that civilization is anti-evolutionary. “Civilization” breeds weak-minded fools who could never survive a world without the luxuries they have, all while thinking they have it so hard.

Kevin R.
December 14, 2020 12:25 pm

The Left creates a neurotic society.

Gary Pearse
December 14, 2020 10:24 pm

Remember several years ago, as the Dreaded Pause lengthened to almost two decades, a number of climate scientists came down with what was known as the Climate Blues. It ended the careers of
a numberof them. The climate therapists invariably were simply enablers and offered no relief on what is the best known psychological disorder of all -depression arising from denial.

The patients rationalized that it was because all their work showed the terrible future we were headed for and no one was listening to them. Heck I was worried because most actually were listening to them! No, it was their own niggling doubts about CAGW that the mind was trying to get them to consider. Yeah, its tough after having been sold the goods in grade school followed by a dozen years in university and another dozen working on the stuff to dare to contemplate that they had wasted over half their working lives on a non issue.

Today, it’s the millions of unfortunate non scientist suffers who believe in all that stuff are ill. They are not even getting the benefit of doubts. This hysteria of a huge percentage of the population is perhaps the most terrible thing ever done to society across the world and none of the most culpable of these billionaire elite ideologues are going to pay for this crime. There is no professional help for these patients, certainly not from today’s useless deluded psychotherapists.

Tom Abbott
Reply to  Gary Pearse
December 15, 2020 6:30 am

“This hysteria of a huge percentage of the population is perhaps the most terrible thing ever done to society across the world”

I believe so, too.

And it’s all based on something with no scientific foundation: That CO2 is the control knob of the Earth’s temperature, but this assertion has never been established as fact, so the people who are worrying themselves over Human-caused Climate Change are suffering from delusions put on them by the Elites and the Elite News Media. People ought to be suing them for damages.