Essay by Eric Worrall
Fear of climate change, regardless of how ill-founded, is having a traumatic impact on millions of people.
How Climate Cafes Are Helping People Process Their Emotions
Climate cafes are spaces to process emotions related to climate change, support others who are struggling with it, and foster resilience.
BY SPENCER SPELLMAN | SEPTEMBER 19, 2025
It’s a warm, sunny weekday evening in July in the heart of Vancouver, British Columbia. Inside the Creekside Community Recreation Centre—which overlooks the Vancouver skyline—a group of more than 20 people have gathered for one of Climate Cafe Vancouver’s events, coming together to create art that reflects their emotions about climate change and the climate future they envision.
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“I had these big feelings and emotions,” Khurana told me, “but no space to talk about them.”
…While these cafes were in part created to inspire action, most of the climate cafes in Canada, like Climate Cafe Vancouver, are first and foremost action-free spaces to process emotions related to climate change, support others who are feeling the weight of the climate crisis, and foster resilience. Khurana told me that she wanted to “create a supportive, inclusive community that would foster more open conversations, provide support, and remind people that they’re not alone.”
Read more: https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_climate_cafes_are_helping_people_process_their_emotions
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I see these cafes as the climate activist equivalent of a wet house.
Wet houses are last stop palliative care for chronic alcoholics. They accept people who have been through rehab countless times and failed, and are now so damaged by their addiction there is nothing more which can be done, other than make their remaining time as comfortable as possible while they drink themselves to death.
Except unlike an alcohol abuse wet house, these climate cafe people are mostly physically fine – it is their minds and emotions which are messed up.
These people are likely beyond our help, at least for now. If they live long enough some of them might start to look around, look at the world and ask when that imminent climate apocalypse everyone keeps promising is actually going to happen.
But in the meantime, if hanging out with other climate depressives painting pictures helps them pull through this dark period in their lives, I can’t see any harm in it.
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Do climate cafes sell cold coffee? Not for long I would guess.
Cold comfort is served…
They sell coffee?
What’s the carbon footprint of a cup of coffee?
Estimated carbon footprint:
Cup of coffee:
~0.15 to 0.25 kg CO₂e per cup
A glass of tap water:
~0.001 to 0.005 kg CO₂e per glass
Hypocrites.
(Source: studies from lifecycle assessments and sustainability reports)
Don’t forget, they only drink soy or almond decafe lattes. !!
Not really “coffee”
Perhaps these cafes would be an ideal spot for skeptics to meet people to reassure them the world is not ending and that CO2 is their friend. At least until we get kicked out.
Do not bring contrary opinions, because misery loves company. And another thing, I bet all these people use FF every day, oh the guilt!
Guaranteed! I debated one guy here in Wokeachusetts- turned out he had a Hummer. I mentioned that fact to an audience and the guy was crushed. 🙂
I’ll bet you one other thing. No one going to these cafes worry about how to pay their monthly bills. That is a known, they worry about the unknown.
Talk about a going out of business plan.
Climate cafes are spaces to process emotions related to climate change, support others who are struggling with it, and foster resilience.
A pub is a place to meet up with friends, have a drink, a talk, a laugh, and unwind.
Spot the difference?
Foster resilience – I guess that means keep on using FF so as not to be inconvenienced.
“Foster resilience”
I don’t particularly like Fosters. 🙂
Foster Brooks was pretty funny.
George Goble too.
From the unscripted days of “The Hollywood Squares:”
Q: “Jackie Gleason believes in them, but has never seen them. What are they?”
A: [George Goble] “His feet.”
😆😅🤣😂
I switched to Jack Daniels. No carbs so it keeps in line with my Keto diet.
Anything, well almost, other than Foster’s. 😉
Leftists have no friends but comrades who will instantly excommunicate them as soon as they dare to divert or even question one of their believes.
Therefore they need a place to meet that is as artificial and phony as their believes and fears- and a climate cafe will do the job.
Of course climate cafes have nothing to do with ending their fears.
Quite the opposite.
Besides their purpose as replacement culture they are ” proof ” of how real AGW is.
Sxyxs:
Yes.
Knaves and Dupes. The Knaves need to keep their supply of Dupes as high as possible so they sponsor events like this [climate cafes] to keep scaring the gullible. Its working! — women are afraid to have children.
These eco-catastrophist Knaves are happy even as they emotionally wreck a huge part of the population. Sad, on multiple levels.
The really depressing part is the thought that these are really real.
https://www.climate.cafe/
Scroll down to the map at the bottom to see where every CC in the world is located (if you really want to).
Midland, TX? Really? Nashville I could understand. Blue area in a red state.
None in Canada, can that possibly be true?
None within 500 miles of me. Maybe I should open my own, then when the one or two nut jobs from this area wander in for comfort, I can slip them a helping of reality, along with the comfortable shoulder to cry on
I live in SE Virginia. The closest one to me is Asheville, NC. Guess I won’t be making that trip.
I heard the true believer from Massachusetts drives his Hummer to that one. 😆😅
It’s your cafe’. So you get to set the agenda, invite the speakers, lead the conversation.
I say, “Why not?” It will take a while for complaints to flow back to the top level and remove you from their map. It would be an interesting experiment and only cost you some personal time.
And the ‘carbon footprint’ that goes into the construction / promotion / and running of these things is how much now?
There’s one in Mongolia?!
Paraphrase: “Fear of the Climate is driving people crazy”
The Michael Mann / Phil Jones legacy.
Look at all the damage you have done with your distortions about the temperatures and climate! Proud of yourselves?
As long as they succeed in destroying capitalism, they are willing to accept a bit of collateral damage. (So long as they aren’t one of the ones that get damaged.)
Then there is this.
Fixed their sentence for them.
Climate Cafes – Where “Reality” = Fantasy.
What about relieving their anxieties, by telling them the truth about global warming?
It’s a feature, not a bug.
It’s still amazes me the number of weak-minded people there are in this world.
Yes, but so many are caught by it so young. I remember when Greta first hit the scene, I mostly felt bad for her – she was a neurodivergent kid whose parents and teachers had utterly failed her. Not only did they tell her the bogeyman is real, but it’s basically a certainty that he will kill her and most of the people she cares about within her lifetime.
Now that she’s an adult herself, I have less sympathy, but that starting point is tough to overcome.
You’re right. But there are also many middle-aged people who are coming into this. Their parents didn’t teach them about anything happening today.
Definitely agreed on that point. Not sure how to help those folks.
“Except unlike an alcohol abuse wet house, these climate cafe people are mostly physically fine – it is their minds and emotions which are messed up.”
I think alcohol abuse is also a mental condition. IMHO, people turn to alcohol not for physical relief, but for mental or emotional relief.
Absolutely- I could have worded it better…
Alcoholism has a physical component.
Aside from that nit, spot on.
Physical dependency after the fact, yes.
Correct.
“not for physical relief,”
I dunno….. a cold beer after a couple of hours mowing on a hot day…
.. that first half stubby, that goes straight down, is very much a welcome relief.. 🙂
the top half or the bottom half?
or in my case – both halves
“top half or bottom half”
Depends on whether you are using a straw.
Well, beer tastes awful to me, so I can’t agree with you there. But, each to his own.
A well-chilled Sauvignon Blanc can work, too. 🙂
Or bourbon on the rocks.
Spot on
Happy autumn equinox, North America. It won’t feel much like autumn for several days, because we have a stubborn omega block over us. If you’re feeling bad about enjoying a few more warm evenings, I suppose you could ask the baristas for a discount! 🧋
“feeling the weight of the climate crisis”
Lots of good reasons to be feeling down- when they grow up they’ll realize this and be down for the right reasons, not for this imaginary crisis.
Time for a climate skeptics cafe. “The Deniers Club”. Time to be proud of denying climate catastrophe.
I think you find clubs with names like “aeroclub” are fairly skeptical 🙂
You can only “deny” something which is actually real.
“refuse to admit the truth of (a concept or proposition that is supported by the majority of scientific or historical evidence)”
The VAST majority of scientific and historical evidence shows there is no climate crisis…
… and also does not support the conjecture that enhanced atmospheric CO2 causes warming.
The real DENIERS are those refusing to understand this fact… ie the climate alarmists.
history deniers too
Maybe a closer look at the characters that frequent these joints would reveal that their sentiments have less to do with climate anxiety and is more about the sky-high living costs in Vancouver which are at or near the top in the entire country. The reality is that only a tiny minority of Canadians is particularly concerned with climate change, and that’s the reason that in last April’s federal election the promise to withdraw the much-reviled carbon tax was at the top of the to-do list of the two leading political parties. In addition, a recent international report suggests that the output of Canada and other leading fossil fuel producing countries are likely to be twice as high as the recommended Paris treaty levels. Canada is currently one of the top 4 fossil fuel producers worldwide with 6.5% of the global output. And guess what: climate concerns continue to be among the least worries among its citizens—except for the clowns who have time to sit in Vancouver cafes and fret about the mythological climate crisis. If Canadians have to choose between fighting climate change and ensuring a steady revenue source and energy supply from the production of fossil fuels, it’s pretty obvious which they’d choose.
I see opportunity here. Knowledgeable, level headed and strong people from our side should go in and paint graphs showing the wildfires have gone down, strong hurricanes and typhoons have not increased, sea levels are not rapidly increasing, the logarithmic effect of more CO2, how close we got to not having enough CO2 to sustain life as we know it on our planet, how most plants could use more CO2 than is available to them now and on and on. We need strong people because some of these characters will become mad, we need knowledgeable people to clearly explain our view in the simplest possible terms and level headed people because this will not be easy.
Don’t forget the 30 percent tip, climate fee, state and local taxes, and convenience fees.
And for an extra fee, rubber stamp the forehead “CARBON NEUTRAL”
They just need to stop worrying and start living. Or as Bob Newhart would say, “Stop it!”
When this interglacial period ends and we slide into the next glaciation, there will be some real climate anxiety.
No mates then?
The people she knew were insufficiently committed to the cause. So she stopped seeing them.
After spending too much time on their phones, people get upset with face-to-face meetings where they can’t “swipe left” to get rid of ideas (or the person) with which they disagree.