Essay by Eric Worrall
“… I get them to envision a world that is fair; where everyone has enough resources to meet their needs. I ask them what they can do now to contribute to this world, and ask them to move towards this. …”
As a psychologist I have witnessed a surge in climate grief. This is what I tell my clients
Carly Dober
Sat 13 Jan 2024 01.00 AEDTLast modified on Sat 13 Jan 2024 11.35 AEDT…
“It sucks… and it’s only going to get worse,” my client says, disbelief colouring their facial expression.
I’m inclined to agree, it does suck.
I can feel my hands starting to get clammy as my memory flashes back to the catastrophic climate events I’ve watched unfold recently.
Bearing witness to the climate crisis can feel surreal at times, yet I do not mention this to my client. I have a job to do, and it is not to escalate their rational anxieties and fears, it is to manage what is manageable; to teach coping strategies, to encourage connection to nature and social relationships, to channel their grief into sustainable action that feels meaningful.
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I work within an eco-psychological framework, in which humans’ psychological interdependence with the rest of nature is a focus, along with the implications for identity, health and well-being. What these young people deeply grasp is that humans are not separate from nature – we are nature.
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I constantly return to the message that there is so much beauty and life in the world that can be saved – and is absolutely worth fighting for. I encourage people to curate their social media feeds and to seek out good news stories about the climate action around the world. I get them to envision a world that is fair; where everyone has enough resources to meet their needs. I ask them what they can do now to contribute to this world, and ask them to move towards this.
I talk to them about connection with like minded peers, and joining a local climate action group. I talk to them about nature based therapies- hiking, swimming, listening and watching wildlife, attending beach clean ups and tree planting days. I talk to them about choosing financial institutions to bank with that rule out funding fossil fuel projects. I encourage mindfulness, enjoying the present moment, working through their grief through art, and working through their stress, rage and anxiety with movement.
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Carly Dober is a psychologist living and working in Naarm/Melbourne. You can see more of her work here IG @enrichinglivespsychology
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/13/climate-change-crisis-fears-despair-younger-generations-impact
What a sad bunch of fantasists. The only problem with global warming in Melbourne where psychologist Carly Dober is based, is Melbourne is not getting enough.
Melbourne, perched on the cold South Eastern edge of the Australian mainland, is one of the coldest and wettest major cities in Australia. I visited Victoria and Melbourne a few weeks ago, just before Christmas. At the time I visited there was no sign of the Southern Hemisphere Summer, we were wearing sweaters and long sleeve light overcoats, especially in the evening. I had to buy some winter woolies, we forgot to pack warm enough clothes for Melbourne Summer.
It wasn’t until we’d travelled over 700 miles north of Melbourne, towards the equator, that we finally switched back to Summer clothes.
Looking at the weather report it looks like Summer finally arrived after we left – but Melbourne’s famously variable weather means even on hot days, you should keep a warm coat handy, just in case.
In the highlands just to the North West of Melbourne, it’s entirely possible to experience snow in the first month of Summer. A few years ago, we had a Summer holiday near Daylesford, about 1.5 hours drive North West of Melbourne, elevation around 2000ft. Don’t get me wrong, we had a lovely time, but those two weeks we spent in Summer in the Victorian highlands, we burned an entire large trailer load of wood trying to stay warm, especially on nights it snowed.
If there is one part of Australia which could really use a little global warming, that would be Melbourne and the rest of Victoria.
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Story Tip: The Climate Czar, John Ketchup Kerry, is resigning his position, and, you guessed it, the Ship of Fools is without a Captain.
Woolies? Excuse me but isn’t that slang for sex with sheep? I was in Montana once and…
More correctly, it’s KKKlimate Czar.
Anyway, an indoctrinated distant relative is selling this beautiful property that’s about 2 and a half hours NE of Melbourne. Hard to believe that anyone there could look around and believe the environment is collapsing.
Near Mansfield – beautiful alpine area. I’m sure they get a ton of snow in winter though, and swimming in that river would be a bracing experience any time of year.
In addition any investor should be aware of the Victorian Government’s recent attempts to hammer landlords and holiday rentals with massive taxes and harsh regulations.
Nick lives just a few hills away at Moyhu.
I lived on 10 acres 20 minutes drive from there for 17 years.
Truly God’s country.
https://www.axios.com/2024/01/13/john-kerry-biden-campaign-climate-2024
Don’t cheer too soon..
.. he’ll find somewhere else to spread his EVIL, SLIMY, HYPOCRITCAL anti-science climate pusstilence.
Kerry is said to be going out on the campaign trail for Biden, so, no doubt, we will be subjected to more of Kerry’s delusions about the climate and other things, in the future.
Thank God, Kerry was never president. That would have been as bad or worse than having Biden in office.
Dober is another useful idiot that doesn’t know the difference between climate and weather.
“I work within an eco-psychological framework”
That sure helps.
Unhot weather forces Buffalo and Pittsburgh game to be rescheduled.
https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/sports/football/nfl/bills/2024/01/13/buffalo-bills-game-moved-vs-steelers-to-monday-buffalo-weather/72215500007/
Blizzard in sub zero F weather will do that. Tonight’s Dolphins -Chiefs game at KC will have a kickoff temperature of -3F and a windchill of -30F. Will be the coldest game in NFL history. Dolphins have no hope.
Global warming, Doncha know.
Green Bay Packers New Year’s Eve game of 1967 is supposed to have been the coldest. It would be remarkable if a game in KC beat that.
There were 3 games colder than this game, -13 F in 1967, -9 F in 1982 and -6 F in 2016
LINK
Ayup!
Looks like Buffalo is getting slammed with lots of lake-effect Gorebull Wurming! Doesn’t look like tomorrow will be much better, but who knows? Not the Mikey Mouse weather Mann!
The players should be OK, but the paying customers might get snowed in and frozen to their seats for days if the NFL isn’t careful! That could be a hard one to pin on Demon CO2! Contortionists and pretzel makers have the best odds in that case!
And the NFL scheduled the game in Houston Texas (40s?) for the afternoon, and this game for the evening in KC below 0 F.
BRILLIANT!!
“I can feel my hands starting to get clammy as my memory flashes back to the catastrophic climate events I’ve watched unfold recently.” Nice try. This sounds like something out of a poorly written book of fiction. I kept reading the article and laughing all the time until I got to the end. I don’t believe it. People can’t be this stupid, or can they be?? Lord help us if it is true. See you on April fools day!
My post on this, apparently lost, agrees. I noted that the author of that quote just needs an intro. I suggest: “It is a dark and stormy night…” Helps set the mood.
Those were catastrophic WEATHER events, and his parents and grand-parents lived through earlier catastrophic weather events…..
It’s pop-psychology for pop-science.
Needs an intro: “It is a dark and stormy night…”
Suddenly, a shot rang out!
Suddenly, two climate activists walked into the bar.
The patrons turned towards them, looked closely, and with one voice exclaimed –
“fuvk off!”
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Intersectionality is one of the academic left’s favorite silly concepts lately. They have taken all of their worst ideas and tendencies and channeled them into one big swirrling sucking cesspool of physiological and social waste and destruction.
I was just going to say: that guy’s a real weenie.
a wuss
It is the intersection of irrational distrust of Caucasians, men, and heterosexuals.
and us old guys…
ONe thing with these pseudo-compassionate communist wannabes, when they envision a world in which everybody has “enough” stuff. It’s always someone else who is being forced to give up stuff, and themselves getting more.
For sure. Somehow in their pantheon of need, their personal income and assets are always at or slightly below the threshold where people need to start giving to others.
Ayn Rand beautifully illustrates the fallacy of this thinking in “Atlas Shrugged” – no matter how hard you try to look needy, in a system which elevates need above property rights, someone will always find a way of convincing the collective they are more needy.
For the Left, the sole role of government is to forcibly reallocate ‘stuff’ from those who have too much to those who have too little. Unfortunately, since they have no idea where stuff actually comes from, the inevitable result is that stuff simply disappears, along with the commensurate proportion of the population who needed stuff to survive.
The late, great Australian Clive James put it beautifully: “The consumer goods vacuum known as Socialism”.
“…a surge in climate grief.”
Yes, but not exactly as you imagine, eco-psychologist.
The reality is climate alarmist grief.
Kerry plans to bow down before Schwab in Davos one more time.
I just had an image from the Wizard of Oz flash through my brain; but with all our favorite great reset globalists squeezed together behind the curtain.
Since the crowd at Davos seems to prefer only succulent and tender young boys and girls Herr Kerry doesn’t have to feel too overly concerned when he bows down to The Schwab!
What a complete and utter waste of oxygen and high quality protein!
Neutron “punch-bowl”?
A democratic canditate won yesterday’s Taiwan election, taking 40%. But Beijing’s man took 33%. China will take over Taiwan through “soft power” maneuvering. Military flyovers are just there to scare off Biden, who today said, “We do not support indepencence.”
He has too many climate anxieties.
Isn’t it fascinating ( just like here in the west) that almost as many people will vote their freedom away as to preserve it.
Imagine Canada had a population of 2 billion people, a ballistic missile defence system which could block the USA’s attempts to strike Canadian territory, and was promising to invade the USA every other day if the USA didn’t do what Canada wanted.
It’s not difficult to imagine some people in the USA voting to maintain the status quo of defacto independence over voting for someone who rocks the boat by moving towards open independence.
I doubt many Taiwanese like China, but its pretty terrifying having a huge angry nation just North of you who makes no secret of their desire to attack you, and your only real hope of salvation from imminent attack is Joe Biden.
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”― Benjamin Franklin
It’s not going to be that easy. I spent a week in Taiwan on business, working with the locals. I was very impressed by what I saw, they love their country, and they hate the Chinese communists. Don’t forget, some Taiwanese were escapees from the cultural revolution, Taiwan have no illusions about what would happen to them if the Chinese mainlanders occupy their homeland. I suspect the entire island is a honeycomb of hidden fortresses and military supplies, if China breaks through the outer defences they will face the insurgency from hell.
Tsai Ing-wen won the 2020 election with 57% agains the Kuomintang candidate. Momentum seems to be shifting. Hard to imagine a country that could finance the multi-billion dollar “Belt and Road” initiative, the world’s second largest economy, etc, not being able to buy its way into Taiwanese businesses, government, military and communications networks. I hope NVDA is exploring alternate plans.
The CCP know that they only have to win one Taiwan election. Then there will be no more elections. Like the Algeria islamist election campaign: “one man, one vote, once”. Would the Taiwanese military then rescue democracy, as the Algerian military did? I hope so. The really sad thing is that so many western democratic ‘leaders’ don’t seem to understand.
Bill,
The ChiComs have already invested so much money buying the US Presidency and Congress that they may not have enough ready cash available to convince Taiwanese pols to commit societal seppuku! And they have to act quickly to get full value from their investments before more of the US gerontocracy falls back down the staircase to complete power! Interesting times indeed!
RE: Don’t forget, some Taiwanese were escapees from the cultural revolution,
Agreed. But many also fled mainland to Hong Kong, every bit as thriving a democracy as Taiwan. Hong Kong could not provide safe harbor over the long term.
“A democratic canditate won yesterday’s Taiwan election, taking 40%. But Beijing’s man took 33%. China will take over Taiwan through “soft power” maneuvering. Military flyovers are just there to scare off Biden, who today said, “We do not support indepencence.”
The Chicoms have paid Biden handsomely to take this position.
What is it, something like $30 million the Biden family has recieved from the Chicoms. That buys a lot of cooperation.
Ole Joe, selling his country down the river. And Taiwan, too.
One of these days we will get to the bottom of all those payments, Joe. We’ll figure out just what you did for all that money.
Joe Biden, the most destructive American president in modern times. And he’s not done yet with the destruction. More pain is on the way for the American people.
I don’t think even Congress can rein in Biden’s destruction. Even if they pass new laws, he will just ignore them like he is ignoring the law now. No, the only way we get rid of Joe Biden’s destruction is to vote him out of office in November 2024, or impeach him now, which is probably out of the question barring new criminal revelations. We are stuck with this guy for the rest of 2024. What a disaster he has been for this country and this world. One stupid move after another.
Carly dear,
When you grow up some more, you might benefit from taking a degree in a hard science like physics, for example. You might then start to learn that what you feel, what you believe, what to do with propaganda, means little in the hard world of facts and proof.
We have lived in Melbourne since 1990. There is no event, not one, that is caused by alleged climate change that has troubled us. Only natural events have happened (apart from a little arson by under educated green people).
Carly, to be credible, you must list the events that cause you to grieve, you must give evidence that they were caused by climate change and that change has to be shown as made by people, not Nature. It is harder work than telling scare stories to children for a living, a living that you will regret as you get wiser.
Geoff S
Presidential candidate Ramaswamy addressed a group of environmentally disturbed climate cultists yesterday in an Iowa event. Starting at about 16 minutes he takes their questions. They go crazy and are forced to leave, but his analysis is brilliant and accurate.
Vivek is a real gem!
I couldn’t help but notice that all of the KrazyKlimateKultists seemed to be wearing high-tech cold weather gear manufactured from fossil fuels to protect humans from the ravages of Gorebull Wurming! I’ll bet they all were carrying devices manufactured in China using FFs, and shipped to the US using FFs, that they wouldn’t dream of leaving home without! And I would likewise venture that those silly, confused children also believe all that the frozen white Gorebull Wurming lying outside on the ground is caused by CO2 warming the atmosphere which then causes cold Arctic air masses to sally forth; leaving poor Santa drowning in a boiling ocean!
Somebody has a real case for suing their college for fraud! They paid dearly for higher education; and they obviously only got plenty of the former, and none of the latter!
I watched enough of it to see several “plants” in the room pop up and sound off with prepared heckling. I find it an odd that lefties are so passionate about sabotaging a Ramaswami campaign candidacy. Wouldn’t it be in their interest to encouraging this fourth-string candidate to stay strong into the primaries to water down the field?
Well, Ramaswamy, has openly criticized the “CO2-is-dangerous” meme, so he stands out from the rest of the candidates to a certain extent for climate alarmists, I imagine..
they go crazy and are forced to leave
I have not seen that happen in the past when he’s been speaking. He usually has good discussions with people with whom he disagrees. I’ll try to find that part later but that gives me a good idea how unreasonable they must have been…
sherro01,
Please stop trying to wake poor Carly from her emotionally fulfilling crusade! She has no time to explain how wrong and evil you are for refusing to accept what you are told by The Authorities; she is much too busy confirming and reinforcing the fears and negative emotions of herself and her poor, poor patients!
Can you say Narcissitic Personality Disorder?
I was driving in Melbourne back in the 70’s with the a/c on, sunny, clear skies ahead of me but windscreen wipers on from the rain coming from behind me.
Don’t like the weather in Melbourne – wait half and hour
“I encourage people to curate their social media feeds and to seek out good news stories about the climate action around the world.”
Easily fixed:
Encourage people to curate their social media feeds and to seek out good news stories about the climate around the world.
Intelligence should never be confused with education. Those with multiple degrees seldom exhibit a high degree of intelligence outside their fields. Dober is a prime example of this sad fact. However, Dober probably makes a good living at his brand of psychological blathering.
He has basically been educated to be a moronic twit !!
“there is so much beauty and life in the world that can be saved”
How do we save the world from one of the greatest scams of all time !!
The scam that is recking havoc on many landscapes and animals and avian creatures, and holding third-world countries back from development, condemning them to continued poverty.
The scam that is destroying prosperity and energy supplies in many once-first world countries.
You know what I’m talking about.. The CLIMATE CHANGE SCAM
“recking havoc”
“Wreaking havoc”
I grew up with the thought that worrying doesn’t accomplish anything. You need to roll up your sleeves and see what you can salvage from a mess. Often you discover it’s not really as bad as you thought and sometimes things turn out much better.
Far too few people understand this so they sit around and mope. They could instead be talking with others, learning about a world they didn’t know about and end the fear of the unknown.
lf you are after abit of global warming that’s easy.
Just invest in a AWS and put it in a place where the sun can shine on it for several hours and you too can have some climate warming. As this will rise the daily maz temps from anywhere between 0.5C to 2.5C over that been recorded by a glass thermometer.
This is the very thing that’s giving the anxious sweaty palms and nightmares.
They can’t even spell….
…. they always leave off the “e” !!
That fool says it’s warmed a degree C in a century as if it’s a big deal. Natural variability is much more than that and in a shorter period of time.
The world continues to warm up from the coldest period in the last 5000 years. Wake me when the temperatures get back to what the world enjoyed during the Holocene Optimum. Some 3 to 5C warmer than today.
“I work within an eco-psychological framework, in which humans’ psychological interdependence with the rest of nature is a focus, along with the implications for identity, health and well-being. “
OMG.. No wonder the guy is a TOTAL MENTAL NUTCASE, and a absolutely LOSER. !
Woke fantasy world from start to finish…. Not a shred of reality can be allowed in.
Carly Dober is a she, not a he.
How would he know ?
Probably can’t define “woman” anyway !
I used a search engine to find out what sort of idiot it was.
Reading comprehension is a lost art! 🙂
I often search for an image to see if the upstairs is empty.
The POTUS offers examples.
I bet Carly Dober has no solar panels on the roof, would love to know!
I feel ya, sista!
I had to deal with one of these just today –
frozen drain pipes that haven’t happened evah before.
(the building was built in 2006).
So – unprecedented climate change!
Global warming caused this, I’m told by a neighbor. (:
I’m old enough to remember the earth’s last swing through the minimum of the previous AMO/PMO. I lived in Northern Minnesota then. Reaching -40 degrees happened at least several times each winter. I walked my 3 blocks to college one morning when the radio was reporting BELOW -50F. I even filled an empty apple jug with green chlorine gas, and set it out on my back porch to watch what would happen when it reached -39F, and liquified. Unfortunately, it was mid March (1965) by then and it never got that cold again that winter. It got cold enough that I checked it several times, though.
I’m in South Texas now and have to worry that the temperature might actually reach freezing tonight. I encased my water tank in its own brick outhouse, though, so I don’t have to worry about that.
seems likely that crystals and drums are involved.
I work within an eco-psychological framework
So how did you jump from that to global Marxism and how are the current crop of Commies doing with this-
I get them to envision a world that is fair; where everyone has enough resources to meet their needs. I ask them what they can do now to contribute to this world, and ask them to move towards this.
What are you charging an hour for this heady stuff and do you fancy shrinking yourself?
Half of the global population lives on less than US$6.85 per person per day (worldbank.org)
Fascinating how to the left, fair involves people like themselves getting stuff they haven’t earned, while the government steals stuff from people who did earn it.
Everyone that the woman is likely to meet already has enough resources to meet their needs. What she wants is more resources to meet her perceived needs, a childish ‘I need more sweets, I need more money, I need more and more’ – what she wants not her needs.
I think it’s more along the lines of “We will decide what your needs are, not you.”
Having watched the river front ad and the Vivek tour meeting I have to say I am impressed with the guys ability to tolerate the organised shouty crew loaded into his meeting to disrupt proceedings.
That tactic is constantly employed by the left to block any none left view from being heard.
As far as the climate psychologist goes, we have all come across people with irrational attitudes to life. Because the group (we normally refer to as crazies) don’t usually coordinate their collective mindless beliefs in fairies make belief or such like, we tend to let them exhaust their individuality safely in their own confines.
Sadly the Climate Alarmist cranks have found social media is a place an option they can all link into and confirm their own view. Social might is right, as in the ‘right/virtuous’ take on all things climate concern no matter the scientific truth to the contrary.
My first visit to Melbourne in 2019 coincided with the first wave of AOC ‘The green new deal’ demonstrations across the western world.
I will be forever haunted by the distorted loud hailers they used to encourage the children and their teachers coordinating them, to raise their arm in the air and shout “Seek higher!” Seek higher!” “Seek higher!”….. echoes of a very troubling movement were all too clear, among the ‘climate youth’.
Good lord,
“Watching the floods and fires unfold across various states has only deepened the anguish, for we understand that this is not just a temporary state, but a stark preview of the grim reality that awaits us for decades to come.”
You need to learn a lot more about the history of natural disasters in Australia before you can feel qualified to advise anyone.
Still what do you care eh? $$$$$!
One bad bushfire season in 2019.
….. basically NOTHING since.
SO what the **** is this dopey twit talking about !
I get them to envision a world that is fair; where everyone has enough resources to meet their needs
I desperately need an ocean-going yacht for my well-deserved holidays to connect again with nature. But nobody, nobody, will give me one. It is not fair, simp, simp.