Essay by Eric Worrall
Education and trauma research academics have just noticed even their own kids are being messed up by climate alarmist narratives.
Trauma-sensitive climate change education can develop truthful hope
Published: July 9, 2024 7.27am AEST
Nathalie Reid Director, Child Trauma Research Centre, Sessional Lecturer Faculty of Education, University of Regina
Audrey Aamodt Lecturer, Faculty of Education, University of Regina
Jennifer MacDonald Professor, Department of Education, University of Regina…
Doom and gloom discourses encountered at school and through multimedia exposure risk evoking worry, fear, anxiety and hopelessness.
To enhance a growing understanding of complex climate emotions, we think it’s important to notice feelings like climate anxiety and climate trauma, among others.
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Canadian youth experience climate emotions like fear, sadness, anxiety and helplessness. In a recent survey by Lakehead University researchers of 1,000 youth between the ages of 16 to 25 across Canada, almost 80 per cent of youth reported climate change affects their mental health.
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For Nathalie, one of the authors of this story, concern about symptoms of climate trauma hit home when her 10-year-old came home from school with a declaration: “I am not going to have kids. I am not bringing kids into a world that is going to blow up,” referring to what he was learning about the climate crisis.
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We call for more complex understandings of the social, emotional, psychological and spiritual impacts of climate change education, which we have come to understand as truthful hope. Truthful hope attends to both forward-looking stories and complex climate emotions in the practice of trauma-sensitive climate change education.
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Read more: https://theconversation.com/trauma-sensitive-climate-change-education-can-develop-truthful-hope-230817
For some kids there is no happy ending to this story;
The following is testimony given by Dr. Alex Wodak in 2019 to a NSW Ice addiction inquiry. Dr Wodak (now retired) is a renowned Aussie substance abuse and rehabilitation specialist.
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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:https://www.iceinquiry.nsw.gov.au//assets/scii/transcripts/Decriminalisation-round-table/Decriminalisation-Roundtable-Transcript.pdf(available on Wayback Machine)
How do we begin to undo the damage, and prevent more damage?
If our society does not find a solution and change course, the next teenage social media craze could be the save the planet overpopulation plastic bag challenge.
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Doom and gloom discourses encountered at school and through multimedia exposure risk evoking worry, fear, anxiety and hopelessness.
Precisely as intended – for the masses
Big Pharma is right there to get them on meds.
Unnecessarily frightening children is the preferred method for making their parents follow the orthodoxy (don’t you care about our future mom and dad?)…much like Church and Sin and Eternal Damnation…Don’t you care about your eternal soul?
I do care about my soul
And I do care about my child’s future, A future with great technology and abundant reliable energy to power it. Energy that only FF and Nuclear can provide
Millenarian religions can, obviously, be taken seriously. Environmentalism can have the characteristics of such a religion, and cynics pushing it for other motivations can find that regrettable.
Given the actual behavior of many politicians, they are mostly socialists of one flavor or another who find environmentalism a useful tool, but do not adhere to that faith themselves.
Here’s a few things parents should be saying to children:
‘Just because you read something on the internet doesn’t mean it’s true. Tell me what you read and let’s do some research together to find out if it’s true or not.’
‘Just because a teacher told you something at school doesn’t mean that they know what they are talking about. Almost no teacher in primary school has ever studied climate science so they are just reciting stuff that others have prepared for them. Teachers don’t know everything, and that’s a lesson that is very valuable for you to learn. So go to bed tonight saying: ‘I’m grateful to have learned that even adults don’t always know what they are talking about!’
Even parents.
But the point is, teaching the kids to think for themselves. Teaching them how to find answers on their own. Teaching critical thinking as in every issue has AT LEAST 2 sides and all points of view need to be explored.
Just because a teacher told you something at school doesn’t mean that they know what they are talking about.
My son learned that in K/1 after correcting his teacher on two different subjects. (We were fortunate enough to have a teacher who actually listened)
How about teachers do what I did for 27 years, which is to tell students both sides of the story and let them draw their own conclusions. The vast majority of my students left my classroom as skeptics.
There you go! That is EXACTLY what SHOULD be going on in “school.”
AKA critical thinking.
Only because that is what they are told constantly by “concerned” activists and their parents who are also scared because they are childlike too.
The Boogyman infests everyone who believes he is out to get them. Fear is a powerful motivator and leads people to respond irrationally.
The proper response to fear is to assess risk and ignore nonsense. The sky is not falling no matter how many Chicken Littles tell you it is.
I still don’t get it.
Why in the heck would anyone in Canada be worried by even a few degrees of warming !!
These people are totally loony !
They cornered the doom market on that long ago. Melting permafrost releases methane of course.
The fact it liberates millions of acres across Canada and Russia to valuable agriculture is, of course, never mentioned. But they do have an answer for that as well as we destructive humans will grow grass to graze sheep and cattle on, which fart methane, and we’ll grow wheat, which requires fossil fuel reliant fertiliser.
Cunning, that there climate change. Designed to petrify the planet in Amber, to never change again.
To which the reply is, “but methane is COMPLETELY MEANINGLESS as a “greenhouse gas” since its ‘absorption bands’ are totally overlapped by the main greenhouse gas, water vapor.”
Or, the population of cattle, sheep, etc., has been stable over the past decade (or longer) and methane is recycled in the atmosphere in short time frames, which means methane emissions from animals has achieved equilibrium.
Except termites.
If they think methane is being released, why not collect it and use it for heating.
They could sure use it up there. !
You’re one of those people who think Canada is a cold place, some of it is. Right now, 1130 am, outside, here in Canada, its a balmy 22C. Anyone who thinks all of Canada is cold is ignorant of geography. Ottawa, which can be cold in the winter(ya think) is 7 degrees of latitude south of London England.
The southernmost point in Canada is south of a huge chunk of the US and the equivalent latitude to Hobart.
Ottawa doesn’t have the Gulf Stream rushing past it…….
“They” are going for the kids’ indoctrination as part of their nasty plan to have us under their thumbs forever. Explain to the kids that all grownups are not necessarily smart or good, And yes, some grown-ups really are really bad guys, trying to earn a buck by stealing it from us.
Don’t confuse messy, nasty pollution with anything to do with the climate.
“… 10-year-old came home from school with a declaration: “I am not going to have kids. I am not bringing kids into a world that is going to blow up,”
There is a lot wrong here and I suspect the mother is part of the problem. A teacher put these words in the kid. With some luck, he may beat this virus.
I was a 10-year old and into my teens at the height of the “Cold War.” That was a time when the world might have been blown up, not this silly climate crisis schist. I’m quite sure I wasn’t worried about having kids. I think my biggest concern was why the brakes (coaster type ?) on my bicycle were not working.
Yeah, this kid didn’t come up with the “no children for me” whine by himself. Having kids and the ramifications for the future wouldn’t even cross the mind of a normal 10-year-old, especially a boy.
Michael Mann and the other Climate Alarmist liars must be feeling real proud of themselves. Their lies are turning kids into mental cases.
Knowledgeable Parents are the only good defense for this Climate Alarmist insanity. Unfortunately, not all kids have knowledgeable parents.
To save your kids sanity, have them read WUWT on a regular basis.
It’s the only way.
“To save your kids sanity, have them read WUWT on a regular basis.”
….That’s the best advice I’ve seen on this subject yet!
Problem with that approach is it needs moderation given the flame wars often seen in the comments sections.
The kid doesn’t want to have kids?
They have hormones for that. Might also require a little slicing and dicing.
Some of these teachers need to be introduced to history and the guillotine.
(OK. Sorry about that last. But what they’ve done to these kids IS criminal.)
And then he will meet a cute little filly..
… and before you know it, kids all over the place !!
Only if said filly isn’t infected with the same Eco Virus.
Or brainwashed as a trans.
It has been going on for a long time. My 3 kids all declared no children. They are all pushing 40 now. No grandkids for me to spoil. 🙁
Pink Floyd gave us the answer 5 decades ago –
“Hey, teachers – leave them kids alone!”
Good song! Appropriate.
Maybe if the teachers just stuck to 2+2=4 instead of Man + CO2 = Doom?
With how subjective things have become now 2+2=Green
More of 2+2 = 4. How do you feel about that?
I’m not sure if I’m for it or against it.
“Youths” of 20 to 25 years old?????
In my family we have a 25 year old who is a Company Commander in a reserve Infantry Battalion, and I have sailed with 25 y o Chief Officers in cargo ships.
“Youth” stops at 18 in my book.
It used to be 16
Yes, but 18 still is for Merchant Seamen. You can be a Galley Boy or Deck Boy at 16 and still go to sea, (including to “war zones”) but you are considered a youth until you are 18.
The Democrats, as a way to endear themselves with 25-year-olds, passed laws that allowed people of this age group to continue on their parent’s insurance policies, so that’s why they are described as “kids”.
They also paid off their student loans.
Gee, I wish I could get some of that for my loans and my kids’ loans. It would be a fair chunk of pocket change to understate it.
At 17 I was in charge of a section of sailors on a cross country train trip, by 20 I was a sublieutenant in charge of part of the deck division. These days any one under 19 is covered by child legislation. Bollocks.
Are you sure it’s the climate, eh?
That was Justine’s Indian incarnation.
Now do the Jamaican incarnation.
(and don’t forget the cucumber he placed down the front of his jocks).
But he’s woke now, so all is forgiven.
But he’s woke now so all is expected, especially the cucumber
Deep down, Justin feels inadequate. So he overcompensates with cucumbers and dictatorial policies.
His gender identity is a cucumber?
Or, you said genital identity. My bad.
His identity is as a cockwomble.
Children for the most part are pretty resilient, and their concerns have little to do with stuff that is beyond their immediate surroundings. I grew up in the late 1950s/1960s at a time when we were still being directed to “duck and cover”, and Soviet Premier Kruschev was promising “We will bury you”, and he had the nukes to do it … along with the1962 Cuban missile “crisis”, the Vietnam War, massive anti war protests and riots in the cities and on college campuses, racial riots were rampant in the cities, the draft, hippies and the flower children, etc. But very little of that stuff penetrated my world as a child, where the main worries were passing my next test at school, being socially acceptable, dreaming about what toys I wanted for Christmas, watching cartoons, were Dad or Mom going to spank me for mouthing off, would we finally get to visit Disneyland this summer, etc. etc.
Rarely would something emanating from the adult world leak through to kid consciousness, like the assassination and funeral for JFK or the moon landing.
Virtually all of the social issue angst was borne by the college students and older, and ghetto residents and those who feared rising crime, Presidential politics … most of the media attention was on that stuff.
Kids are still kids. They’ll survive all of today’s bullshit just like they always have.
Except for the “duck and cover” absolutely nothing has changed
Instead of Kruschev we have Putin
Instead of Cuban Missiles we have Iran and Korea
Instead of anti war protests we have…
… anti Israel protests
… just stop oil protests
… XR protests
… Idiots throwing powder on everything
… other idiots gluing themselves to things
Antifa riots galore
Nothing really has changed
Social media.
The difference being that kids back then were not saturated with it as they are today, and the “media” back then actually made an attempt at being detached from the notion of what the “right” answer was. Further, if you didn’t get a daily newspaper in your household or have a functioning TV, you were blissfully detached from the “news.” And even if you did, the “kids” probably didn’t read “The Paper” or watch “The News” (there were cartoons and TV shows and monster movies to watch).
Now the “kids” are endlessly saturated, one might even say marinated, in mountains of bullshit 24/7. Their “smart phones” or computers are ever present (or where they spend much of their time) and every “search engine” will “direct” them to the “right” answers to every question on every topic.
And non-conformity is today brutally beaten down in the star chamber of anti-social media, so the “one-sided view” gets continually reinforced.
Tougher to be “resilient” when you are continually fed one side of the story and there’s no way to tune it out.
You are assuming incorrectly that kids today are saturated with adult stuff … I disagree. Kids are still kids, and though they have access to the world through the internet, most of their screen time is spent talking about kid social stuff just like we did 60 years ago, not discussing the news or how to solve the world’s problems.
As for being affected by what is in popular media, we were fed immense amounts of bullshit from the media 60 years ago, but as we got older and got exposed to the real world eventually, we acknowledged that bullshit and changed our attitudes in accordance with our own circumstances of life. That’s the cycle of life.
You are looking through an adult glass at kid consciousness.
I do a lot of reading, and one of the books I read recently about Tudor England was that there was a great deal of handwringing going on in the early 16th century about the terrible effects on people’s psyches of romance novels, that they were corrupting the youth of the day, it rotted people’s brains and abilities to think.
Every single generation feeds itself its own bullshit about how the next generation is going to hell in a handbasket due to this or that social phenomenon. Romance novels in the 16th century … anti-establishment “humanist” writings in the 18th century … pulp novels in the 19th century … Hollywood movies in the 20th century (expecially sex, drugs, rock’n roll and violence) were ruining entire generations of kids. Blah blah blah.
Nothing ever really changes when it comes to human beings.
It’s neither 1 nor 0.
The difference then, and I am of that age, too, and now is instantaneous social media brainwashing and addiction. Gives no time for the kids to formulate their own thoughts.
It would be a good idea for parents and taxpayers to examine school curriculums to make certain they’re presenting a balanced view regarding climate and environmental issues. Otherwise, their kids will be subjected to one-sided alarmist discourses from teachers who rarely know much about these topics other than what a leftist program of studies tells them.
A ‘balanced view’ across all school curricula, in all subjects, started to be jettisoned around 1965-70. Today there is no balanced view, if a student raised their hand and questioned the reality of CAGW they would be labelled a climate denier.
The long march is complete.
Do that and end up on the FBI domestic terrorist list.
That did happen.
I live near a large area of bush with really badly maintained fire trails.
The local kids on their motorbikes LOVE it. 🙂
No climate worries from them.
(although I wish they would put better mufflers on their bikes) 😉
Yep.
Some weekends I’d just about hope for a bushfire so the dirt bikes with their raucous mufflers had to piss off.
I could hear them from miles away up and down the ridges and gullies.
Sundown on Sundays was for me a time for “ahh, peace at last!”
Just the black cockies and the kookas for background “ambience”.
Looxury when it was a discarded CravenA cig packet cut up and attached to the mudguard wire with a couple of mum’s clothes pegs-
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Two different issues are covered here.
The first is the predictable outcome from all the needless scaremongering about global warming. The media, the government/education system are all lying to students. You can’t scare the crap out of students then act surprised that you scared them. This is 100% preventable.
The second issue is the drug problem. This is far more difficult. The number one thing to acknowledge is that society will never keep people from taking drugs. Number two just throwing your hands up and accepting that anyone can use drugs anytime anywhere is worse. Even worse than that is providing drugs to any who want them. Having said that we must admit that the home cooked drugs are dangerous beyond belief.
I don’t have the answer but one thing must be made clear, it is not okay to be under the influence anywhere you choose. The only other issue I have with this is the age thing. You don’t handle primary students the same as secondary students, college age should be different and those in
the workforce are different. That 16-25 category is nonsense.
May I suggest liberal researchers doing anything to obtain more funding & promote the climate scare, by fabricating an irrational phenomenon labelled ‘climate emotions’.
Anything goes to increase the therapeutic State.
Which would you prefer – a dead son or a trans daughter?
No other options given.
Gloom, despair, and agony on us.