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.
If you want to be scared about something, read the WSJ story today on the conviction of the citizen journalist in China who covered the story on the pandemic control effort in Wuhan.
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HONG KONG—A Chinese court imposed a four-year prison term on a citizen journalist who documented how Covid-19 ravaged the city where the coronavirus was first detected, in a case that underscores the lengths to which Beijing has defended its official narrative of the pandemic.
Zhang Zhan, 37 years old, was convicted of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” after a roughly 2½-hour trial at the Shanghai Pudong New Area People’s Court on Monday, where prosecutors accused her of spreading falsehoods about the coronavirus pandemic through social-media posts and interviews with overseas media, her lawyers said.
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Anyone with school age children or grandchildren should have them home-schooled or, at most, in a carefully vetted private school. Government schools in the U.S. have been abusing children for decades, and not just about climate. Even right-minded, well-intentioned public school teachers are put under orders to push the propaganda at risk of termination. Parents have been suckered or pressured into accepting the system, which now tries to incarcerate children as toddlers and keep pre-K – 12 kids all day, even in summer, feeding them all of their government prescribed meals as they indoctrinate them.
If you have any doubts, just sign up to serve a stint as a substitute teacher (doesn’t require credentials), and see what is happening in the classroom, and listen to the “teachers” talking in the teachers’ lounge. My daughter did this at the young age of 20 at one of the best-rated public schools, and she walked away disgusted. Yes, there are good teachers and administrators, but they are allowed little room to deviate from the script.
They won’t be happy until we permanently re-live the 1930’s
90% of the Earths history according to geologist there has been zero ice on the poles.
The central planners / Marxist want to control the world and do it via our socialist edumacation / indoctrination system.
They really do not mind breaking a few eggs to get their way. In a rural county 40 years ago it was starting to show now I would consider running your kids through socialized education camps child abuse. If you must run your kids because of your home situation at least spend the time making them prove, understand, and realize that actual science relies on questioning everything.
All one has to do is examine school science curriculums and if he can find any that presents balanced climate coverage it would be a near-miracle. Mind you, when you consider that these programs of study are constructed inevitably by leftists, it’s no wonder they’re all doom&gloom punctuated by regular denunciations of fossil fuels with regular promotion of alternate energies. So if parents are really concerned about the one-sided aspects of climate teaching, they should demand that both sides of the story be presented, particularly since the teachers themselves often know little of the issue beyond what the curriculum tells them.
This L A Times article is total garbage as is every article this propaganda rag for climate alarmism writes. Some idiot writer for the Times picks this absurd topic and manufactures a bunch of junk to try and create a non existent issue.
My generation grew up in the 1950’s with the constant and very real threat of nuclear annihilation but our parents, behaving like responsible adults, protected us from that knowledge. What’s wrong with parents now? Don’t they know what it means to be adults?
In Australia the taxpayer funded ABC, is running a relentless campaign on this climate fraud. They recently had Attenborough spruiking climate disaster on several programs..I have never heard such unscientific rubbish. They are making their own programs bringing in kids and getting them to make us save the planet. This is going on every day and they have stations in every state.
[please get the “number” correct in your email address so we don’t have to fix it–mod]
Why do I always read that newspaper address as “latrines.com”?
But the reality is that based on the paleoclimate record and the work done with the models, the climate change we are experiencing is caused by the sun and the oceans over which mankind has no control. Despite the hype there is no real evidence that CO2 has any effect on climate and there is plenty of scientific rationale to support the conclusion that the climate sensitivity of CO2 is zero. It is all a matter of science. The children that you are speaking of have fallen victim to AGW propaganda. The reality is that the AGW conjecture is based on only partial science and is really full of holes. AGW is really a form of science fiction.
But the reality is that based on the paleoclimate record and the work done with the models, the climate change we are experiencing is caused by the sun and the oceans over which mankind has no control. Despite the hype there is no real evidence that CO2 has any effect on climate and there is plenty of scientific rationale to support the conclusion that the climate sensitivity of CO2 is zero. It is all a matter of science. The children that you are speaking of have fallen victim to AGW propaganda. The reality is that the AGW conjecture is based on only partial science and is really full of holes. AGW is really a form of science fiction.
Climate change (AGW) is such a crock. Education in America has become a form of child abuse. Crush the teahcers’ unions.
I know it’s petty, but is she in any way related to Sam Kinison?