Essay by Eric Worrall
Reaping what our education system sowed.
As climate changes, climate anxiety rises in youth
BY DAVID SCHECHTER, HALEY RUSH, CHANCE HORNER
MARCH 2, 2023 / 9:00 AM / CBS NEWSKids often worry about much different things than their parents do. One of the big ones is climate change. Research shows most youth are “extremely worried” about it, leading to a phenomenon called climate anxiety. Kids and young adults who struggle with this can perceive they have no future or that humanity is doomed.
“We see that a lot of young people are saying, I think my life will be worse than my parents’ lives,” said Dr. Sarah Schwartz, a professor of psychology at Suffolk University in Boston.
A study published last year collected attitudes about climate change from 10,000 people across the world, aged 16-25.
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“So, they know that the world is going to get to be a harder, darker, scarier place,” said Schwartz. “And imagining themselves in that world feels really scary for them.”
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Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-anxiety/
Of course the kids don’t just sit there feeling frightened. Brainwashing the kids with climate fear is likely also leading to self destructive behaviours, like drug abuse.
The following is testimony from Dr. Alex Wodak, a high profile Australian expert on drug rehabilitation, to a New South Wales Ice abuse inquiry in 2019.
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First, the threshold step is redefining drugs as primarily a health and social issue rather than primarily a law enforcement issue. Second, drug treatment has to be expanded and improved until it reaches the same level as other health services. Third, all penalties for personal drug use and possession have to be scrapped.
Fourth, as much of the drug market as possible has to be regulated while recognising that part of the drug market is already regulated, such a methadone treatment, needle and syringe programs, medically supervised injecting centres. It will, of course, never be possible to regulate the entire drug market. We have regulated parts of the drug market before. Edible opium was taxed and regulated in Australia until 1906 and in the United States Coca-Cola contained cocaine until 1903.
Fifth, efforts to reduce the demand for powerful psychoactive drugs in Australia have had limited benefit and require a new focus. Unless and until young Australians feel optimistic about their future, demand for drugs will remain strong. Young people, understandably, want more certainty about their future prospects, including climate, education, jobs and housing affordability. Change will be slow and incremental, like all social policy reform.
As Herb Stein, as adviser to President Nixon said:
Things that cannot go on forever don’t.Drug prohibition cannot go on forever and will be replaced by libertarian paternalism. Thank you.
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Source: Wayback Machine
One day this period of our school system will be regarded with horror by historians, who will look back on this period as we look back on other evil periods in history when indoctrination displaced education.
Future historians will wonder, will struggle to understand how so many of the teachers of our time could bring themselves to stand in classrooms day after day spreading misery and fear, crushing the hope and optimism from the hearts of the children in their care with relentless climate brainwashing, while somehow deluding themselves into thinking they are serving the best interests of the kids.
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Extremely worried for how many seconds in a day with targeted online advertising?
Online propaganda is the new tech that fits well with climate scare tactics.
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TikTok Isn’t the Only China-Backed App the White House Is Worried About (yahoo.com)
Yes, that is something to think about. Over 25,000 apps use the software that reports back to TikTok.
The Chicoms are insidious.
Oh, how far the Lancet has fallen, publishing such poppycock!
First off, this so-called “study” was funded by AVAAZ, a climate activist NGO.
Read the article. Written to sound all “sciency,” the key questions are 1. who made up the study, 2. what were the survey questions, and 3. to whom were these questions posed?
First, the source of the survey questions: “A survey was developed by 11 international consultants with expertise in climate change emotions, clinical and environmental psychology, psychotherapy, psychiatry, human rights law, child and adolescent mental health, and young people with lived experience of climate anxiety. The group met weekly for 2 months (February to March, 2021), reviewing existing climate anxiety measures and evidence for the psychological impact on young people.”
Next, the questions: Climate, climate, climate, climate, climate, climate, …. Nothing about other life issues or concerns that ordinarily dominate most adolescents and young adults, such as jobs, dating, marriage, sex, where to live, what car to buy, eating, lifestyle, paying the bills, … Everyday life concerns for the vast majority have nothing to do with “climate”, and it seldom enters most people’s minds, except brief snippets of conversation generally ending with something like, “What a crock. Who really believes this bollocks?”
Finally, those who were surveyed: Largely a self-selected bunch of narcissists who eagerly join some social media group that demands participation to get “points.”
CONCLUSION: A 97% invalid pseudo-study created and paid for by climate change lunatics designed to reach predetermined conclusions. Let’s not waste our time, except to call out the stupidity with derision whenever possible, including the medical journal and media who repeat this garbage uncritically.
“But is there any actual evidence of a connection between rich country industrial activity and natural disasters or even bad weather in poor countries? The answer is, simply, no. Indeed, for those willing to slog through the IPCC full Fifth Assessment Report, the admission of lack of connection is actually there, although buried deep in the multi-hundred-page Report and couched in bureaucratic gobbledegook. A scientist named Roger Pielke, Jr. compiled many of the statements from the section of the Report known as Working Group I, Chapter 2, for purposes of testimony given before the Senate; he also posted many of them in a blog post (http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2013/10/coverage-of-extreme-events-in-ipcc-ar5.html):
· “There is limited evidence of changes in extremes associated with other climate variables since the mid-20th century”
· “Current datasets indicate no significant observed trends in global tropical cyclone frequency over the past century … No robust trends in annual numbers of tropical storms, hurricanes and major hurricanes counts have been identified over the past 100 years in the North Atlantic basin”
· “In summary, there continues to be a lack of evidence and thus low confidence regarding the sign of trend in the magnitude and/or frequency of floods on a global scale”
· “In summary, there is low confidence in observed trends in small-scale severe weather phenomena such as hail and thunderstorms because of historical data inhomogeneities and inadequacies in monitoring systems”
· “In summary, the current assessment concludes that there is not enough evidence at present to suggest more than low confidence in a global-scale observed trend in drought or dryness (lack of rainfall) since the middle of the 20th century due to lack of direct observations, geographical inconsistencies in the trends, and dependencies of inferred trends on the index choice. Based on updated studies, AR4 conclusions regarding global increasing trends in drought since the 1970s were probably overstated. However, it is likely that the frequency and intensity of drought has increased in the Mediterranean and West Africa and decreased in central North America and north-west Australia since 1950”
· “In summary, confidence in large scale changes in the intensity of extreme extratropical cyclones since 1900 is low.”
Excellent comment.
but not nearly as worried about where their smartphone charger might be….
Standard liberal tendentious drivel.
If the sociologists asking the questions have a clue as to what issues concern teens they didn’t include them in their survey:
affording their first car; moving out of their parents’ house; getting or keeping a job; abuse by someone at work; their next date; avoiding bullies; real environmental issues (like pollution of air and water); species depradation; drugs; pimples; nuclear war … on and on. There are dozens of issues the surveyors could have listed… but didn’t because they were were looking to elevate this one.
My guess is that a fair survey would put global warming somewhere at the bottom of a list of ten, just like it is for adults.
I remember my child telling me from school that the U.S. caused Imperial Japan to attack us because of the oil and other supply embargo in southeast Asia and that we could have negotiated an end to war without using nuclear weapons. It only reinforces the need for detail and context to fight propaganda and other creative history and educational rewrites. Lack of attention span feeds into overreach agendas along with good supplies of drugs.