Guest essay by Eric Worrall
LA Times reports that children are so distressed by what they have been taught about the alleged climate crisis, some are committing suicide. Others are embracing radical climate activism as a coping mechanism for their climate mental health crisis.
For young Californians, climate change is a mental health crisis too
By BRIAN CONTRERASDEC. 27, 20205 AM
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Without reducing those emissions, climate change will make natural disasters, food shortages and rising sea levels even worse, experts say. The world is not yet on track to make the changes necessary to ameliorate its worst effects.
Climate depression played a central role in teenage activist Greta Thunberg’s political awakening, and according to Varshini Prakash — executive director of youth-focused climate activism group the Sunrise Movement — it’s not uncommon for her group to meet kids who have contemplated suicide over the climate crisis.
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Lifestyle changes “empower individuals to feel like they can act,” said Abby Austin, 23, the political lead for the Sunrise Movement’s L.A. branch — echoing medical professionals who say that even small personal actions can help people feel like broader change remains possible.
Getting involved with activism can serve a similar function. Many young Californians said volunteering with climate advocacy groups like the Sunrise Movement or for politicians who have made climate change a central plank in their platforms has given them a sense of purpose.
“A lot of the people who are in Sunrise,” Austin said, “are literally organizing out of climate anxiety.”
Read more: https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-12-27/for-young-californians-climate-change-is-a-mental-health-crisis-too
Feed kids a constant diet of climate anxiety; some commit suicide, some turn to radical activism, some choose to become vegans or withdraw from life or vow to never bring children of their own into what they believe will be a ruined world.
The solution is obvious. Stop frightening the children.
Parents in a war zone don’t take young children out every day to see a bloody parade of all the mutilated corpses, they try to shield their kids from the horror, to give their children as normal a childhood as possible, even in the most impossible circumstances.
But climate activists don’t seem to behave that way. Activists seem to delight in “preparing kids for the future”, by feeding them as much horror and misery as they can pack into a school day. When the kids get home, the indoctrination is far from over. The kids get to tune into often government funded climate documentaries, to reinforce the unhappiness they learned at school.
No wonder the kids end up so messed up.
Even if you believe that the climate crisis is real and imminent, even if you believe we are all going to die in the next few decades, taking joy from the lives of children is an unspeakable act of cruelty.
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Yes LA Times. And you are one of the culprits. Ruining their childhood with the drip-drip of impending doom based on fairy tales. You and your fellow MSM are the evil witch. A plague on all your houses.
So the left is willing to scare children with an existential threat, CAGW, in order to recruit them into their political future. The last brain function to establish itself is gamma waves, which are 25 up to about 140 hertz, and which waves coordinate other brain activities into coherent interaction, and this gamma wave pattern is established somewhere around age 19 to 21. It could be argued, carefully, that a person is not entirely of “free will” until this last brain function is established. Scare kids about CAGW? Convince them they need gender reassignment? This is not a good trend.
Why cant the parents educate their kids properly? SHow them logically and why this climate scam is BS? Kids will always believe their parents, I do this with my daughter, it is clear, simple logic that CO2 is safe and beneficial to the planet. When given this information kids see it very clearly.
One reason is that the parents themselves aren’t educated enough on the issue, and do not know how to counter the specific arguments that come from the AGW side. As we all know, they have a response to every objection, and unless you know better, it can be convincing.
The journalistic article, trying to discuss a serious problem, uses an extremely alarmist tone on the climate, adding gasoline to the fire. This phrase is quite an example “The Earth’s temperature has skyrocketed since the Industrial Age, fueled by human activity and accompanying greenhouse gas emissions. Dramatic reductions in those emissions, and in fossil fuel use, will be necessary to prevent temperatures from reaching a tipping point by 2030, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned two years ago.”
Interestingly, the link of “skyrocketed since the Industrial Age” is to an article in the newspaper itself that does not add anything to support the alarmist phrase. The climate scaremonger is full of these “circular references” without any evidence to support the goofy things that are said, especially the tone that is used.
and goofball greta is such a fine example of climate hysterics as well as mentally having issues with becoming an adult, hence the anorexia and childlike clothes,daddys lil girl doesnt want to grow up!
and her fame will only last while she presents the young childlike look
30 yrs of brainwashing has screwed 3 gens of kids so badly it IS criminal
Gee whiz, the thing I most worried about when I was “that age” was how many books the library would let me check out, and whether or not there was enough hay in the hayloft to keep the horses fed through the winter.
We published in 2002 that there is no real global warming crisis. It has always been a deliberate fraud, promoted by scoundrels and believed in by imbeciles – wolves stampeding the sheep.
I published in March 2020 that Covid-19 was a relatively mild flu that was only dangerous to the very elderly and infirm, and the lockdown of the low-risk under-65 populations was NOT necessary. It was another scam.
Then elitists all over the world linked these two huge scams, saying “To solve one we must solve the other” – totally irrational nonsense– and a false segue to their ultimate scam – the Great Reset”.
The “Great Reset” proposes that a few rich elitists live like all-powerful Princes, and rule over the poor oppressed masses (that means YOU) – essentially the Chinese Communist Party model – It is TREASON.
The Big Picture:
The global warming / climate change scam, the Covid-19 full-Gulag lockdown scam, the specious linkage of these two huge frauds, and the leftists’ “Final Solution”, the Marxist “Great Reset” – aka “Live like a Chinese peasant”.
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM PRESENTS: THE GREAT RESET— “YOU’LL OWN NOTHING, AND YOU’LL BE HAPPY.”
Sky News Australia exposes the “GREAT RESET”, the wild Marxist “Final Solution” from the World Economic Forum (WEF), as espoused by its founder Klaus Schwab (aka “Doctor Evil”) and a host of bizarre villains out of an Austin Powers movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Xxua2w8Jxk (Schwab starts at 5:05)
Here is another video exposing the GREAT RESET – the ultimate scam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOK8OdoS11k
Seriously good people, wake up – you are being conned by traitors and sleep-walked into slavery for your children and your grandchildren.
“We published in 2002 that there is no real global warming crisis. It has always been a deliberate fraud, promoted by scoundrels and believed in by imbeciles – wolves stampeding the sheep.”
I think that’s a pretty darn good description of what is happening.
You know it *has* to be fraud. Anyone who is interested in the climate and weather has looked at all the regional surface temperature charts available for the world.
All these regional surface temperature charts show it was just as warm in the recent past as it is today.
If CO2 were the control knob of Earth’s temperature, then it should be warmer today than in the recent past when much less CO2 was in the atmosphere. But it’s not warmer today than then, which demonstrates that CO2 is *not* the control knob of the Earth’s temperatures. More CO2 today, not any warmer.
So the Climate Fraudsters are certainly aware of all this, yet they proceed to create a computer-generated *global* surface temperature (modern-era) Hockey Stick chart that looks nothing like the regional charts. Instead, the Hockey Stick chart shows the temperature profile to be warming for decades (by computer-generated cooling of the Early Twentieth Century, to make current years appear warmer) and today is the warmest period in human history.
It’s a fraud. The fraudsters are telling you a lie using a computer to create a false reality. We are not living in the warmest period in human history. The unmodified, regional surface temperature charts, documented by humans beings with no climate change bias, put the lie to this “hottest year evah!” false reality, and to Human-caused Climate Change/Global Warming.
At the NASA link below you can compare the regional surface temperature chart profile of the US (Hansen 1999) on the left, with the fraudulent Hockey Stick chart on the right of the webpage.
All unmodified, regional surface temperature charts from around the world resemble the temperature profile of the US surface temperature chart, where it shows that it was just as warm in the Early Twentieth Century as it is today.
None of the unmodified, regional surface temperature charts resemble the “hotter and hotter” temperature profile of the Fraudulent Hockey Stick chart.
That ought to tell you all you need to know. CO2 is a benign gas that has very little to do with the Earth’s temperatures, as proven over time. We have more CO2 in the atmosphere today but it’s no warmer than in the recent past with less CO2 in the atmosphere.
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/hansen_07/
The Fraudulent Hockey Stick chart is the *only* “evidence” the Alarmists have. This is the only thing supporting the Human-caused Climate Change House of Cards. And it is obviously bogus and fraudulent to anyone who cares to look with an unbiased eye,
This one computer creation is causing all sorts of problems. To the point that some maniacs are trying to take our freedoms away from us over it. Over a blatant, obvious Lie.
Sure are one hell of a lot of irresponsible adults out there.
I’m just now emerging from my cold war underground bunker — have I missed anything?
Oh man! The Beatles broke up!
Just what’s needed — children becoming radicals earlier, tearing down society instead of contributing to it.
Children rebel, until they are forced to pay the bills.
Children are a useful pressure point. Regardless of the fact they’ve never had it better.
They never had it worse, either. Unless children understand history they are going to be forced to live “worse.”
The reason they don’t realize they have it so good is that they have no understanding of history.
BTW, the fear thing is working wonderfully. Trump signed the omnibus bill that will continue to cripple all sources of energy except wind and solar.
Yes, and all those Republicans who are hesitating about increasing payments to Americans from $600 to $2,000, voted for the omnibus bill with billions of dollars of political pork in it, but they now get religion and decide helping the American people through the pandemic costs too much.
It’s a myth that Republicans are fiscally conservative. They voted for every bit of the 30 TRILLION dollars we now have for a national debt.
Congress is clearly broken when it comes to the national budget. The only way to fix this problem is for Congress to give the president the Line Item Veto. Congress cannot discipline themselves, so they need the president to help them out when they get carried away with unnecessary spending.
I believe Mao did this same sort of thing to motivate the youth in the 1960s. He got them so worked up and their minds so weakened that he was able to convert them to a ransacking army in a moment (which he did). Weak minds are malleable minds.
It helps to have absolute power and all the guns and tanks too.
Children “literally organizing out of climate anxiety”
I know absolutely NO children who are ‘organising out’ of anything.
‘Organising’ is something activists do. They may then gtather a host of disciples and proceed to brainwash them. But it’s not a childhood occupation…
When children plead with their parents to stop driving them everywhere and insist on walking to school again, then I’ll believe that they have serious cases of climate anxiety.
Unable to convince adults they are focusing their attention on children, an act of the lowest moral character, to get their plans through with the next generation and they don’t care how much damage it does. Socialists never do.
Worst part about this, it is all nonsense, pure propaganda, a scam, HOAX !
China has 1,260GW of energy produced by Coal, and ALL is belched straight into the air !
US has only 240GW, and we scrub it to almost nothing.
China will build ANOTHER 290GW ! ! !
This is just another way to weaken the US.
If we go back to the Paris Accord, this will cost the US TRILLIONS and paying 80% of a HOAX ! ! !
Should be treated the same as pedophiles
Someone should start Facebook groups and other meeting places for parents, family and friends of people who’ve committed suicide over “climate emergency” alarmism and make sure these people know who is responsible
Good. Get them out of the gene pool.
Sorry, no sympathy for the voluntarily commutarded….
ClickbAIT LA Times Headline.
From this article:
“Climate depression played a central role in teenage activist Greta Thunberg’s political awakening, and according to Varshini Prakash — executive director of youth-focused climate activism group the Sunrise Movement —”
Here’s a tweet from Greta that Tom Nelson just pointed out is a bit of a contradiction to what she’s said in the past:
“There’s a myth that young people get anxious or depressed when people talk about the reality of the climate crisis.
My experience is the opposite. …”
https://mobile.twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1343502902019686401
It appears that something was said and reported that is untrue and the News source didn’t bother to fact check it which resulted in them giving fake news.
Waiting for Twitter to spot and flag this as fake news.
I cry ROYAL B&LLSH*T – This type of deceit is designed to appeal to “mothers” so that they will adopt the green mile agenda. Mothers will do ANYTHING to protect their chilluns especially when someone else is guaranteed to pay for it.
There isn’t a shred of truth to this article. An analogy is that covid deaths are being attributed to anybody that dies for any reason. So if a child commits suicide it will be chalked up to “climate change” to get more people on board because, “WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN” is what drives mothers’ opinions.
Children don’t “organize” without direction. (From Greta on down.)
Who is doing the “directing”?
I worry that there won’t be enough lawyers for all the lawsuits when the children find out that they’ve been lied to. This has caused me a great deal of lawyer deficit anxiety (LDA). Who do I sue?