Essay by Eric Worrall
If you are worried about green energy prices, apparently the solution is make more effort to separate your trash.
Three ways climate change affects mental health – and why the story is more hopeful than it might seem
Published: December 3, 2025 7.04am AEDT
Fabian Lenhard
Researcher, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet…
Direct effects: when extreme weather hits
Experiencing a flood, heatwave or wildfire can have a major effect on mental health. …
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Indirect effects: financial strain and disrupted lives
Climate change affects our daily life. Droughts are strongly linked with higher levels of depression and anxiety, especially among farmers and rural communities that face lost harvests, mounting debts and uncertainty about the future.
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Psychological effects: worry, grief and climate-related distress
The ongoing awareness of climate change and its consequences can create many emotions, including worry, grief, frustration, anger and hopelessness. …
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The hopeful side: climate action can strengthen wellbeing
Feeling worried about climate change does not only create problems. It can also motivate people to take meaningful action. …
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Also, research consistently shows that taking climate-positive actions can improve wellbeing. For example, studies from the UK show that people in “greener” households – those who recycle, save energy and make sustainable choices – tend to report higher life satisfaction.
Read more: https://theconversation.com/three-ways-climate-change-affects-mental-health-and-why-the-story-is-more-hopeful-than-it-might-seem-270183
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I’m not sure how recycling more will help pay the bills.
A more effective solution to household financial stress might be to vote for politicians who promise to cancel the Net Zero crusade, to bring down electricity prices. But maybe that’s just me.
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Virtue signaling as a distraction?
It’s way more than just virtue signalling.
It’s another case of more rules and demands,besides the fear scenario, to cause more and more distress by being forced to be tolerant, use the right pronouns,recycle,reduce co2 emissions and all the other obstacles they placed in peoples minds.
It is to keep up pressure on the plebs as it does not matter how tolerant you are,how little co2 you emitt or how much you recycle.
It is NEVER enough.
They always come up with new and/or more demands.
And the real evil thing here is thhat they tell you to fight a mental problem with that thing(or a part of it as in this case) that causes the mental problem.
As Einstein said “Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is insane ” (and doing even more of it is even crazier as becoming a recycling zealot won’t make things better)
The whole text is 100% climate and scare propaganda(heatwaves,droughts,climate change=depression) masked as empathical dogooder advice,
but Mr Lenhard exposes himself at one point
” ongoing awareness of climate change and its consequences”
is what makes people sick.
And this “awareness” is being deliberately pumped into our brains 24/7 by bastards like him.
Climate change exists in our minds just because of permanent media presence.
People who ignore climate change and everything else woke are way more normal and less scared.
And his claim that ” green households tends to have more life satisfaction” is therefore total BS.
Except for trannies you won’t find more crazy people than in vegan households, and those are 100% green.
They may feel better while they repent(=the act of recycling) but once the moment is over misery kicks in.
Placebo Effect
There’s something to be said about getting everything shipshape when times are rough.
Sorting the glass aluminum paper and plastic in the recycle bins is part of that. Fixing
and painting is too. So is getting out and socializing. Stopping traffic and throwing Soup
on the local art collection not so much.
Recycling where I live in Western Washington is a joke. The local places will only accept types 1 and 2 plastics, which is maybe 1% of what we generate. So basically useless.
It should all just be incinerated. Anything else is useless.
Yeah, and I read that the recycling of plastic is what is causing microplastics in the water supply and therefore in our bodies.
“Climate change affects our daily life. Droughts are strongly linked with higher levels of depression and anxiety…”
Of some interest is the fact that droughts are not associated with global warming, or climate change, or the climate crisis, or… Pick your poison. The droughts of the 1930s, before SUVs were invented, far exceed those of recent decades
Any number of natural disasters, like erupting volcanoes, earthquakes, lightning or meteor strikes can ruin your day. Best not to get out of bed.
All of those things can get you in bed!
To each their own.
I woke up. Saw the sod, not the roots. Uttered a damn, now I have to go to work.
/h
There are probably a million cures for the Climate Vapors. Reading a book dispelling all the climate nonsense they’ve been fed over the years, and believe wholeheartedly would do wonders, for example. I suspect, however, that the True Believers don’t want a cure. No, they would rather wallow in their “climate grief”, and wear it proudly as a badge of honor.
Because if you don’t believe there’s a crisis, you’re a bad person.
Because if you don’t believe there’s a crisis, you would get that grant or subsidy or political favor or, or, or,
would not….
My stress is from seeing through all the false green advocacy and lobbyist claims and knowing this will next pollute AI systems for generations to come. At least we have Europe to point to for advanced failure based on those claims.
It seems to be a surprise to the authors that bad weather or property damage gets people down. I guess they swallow the attribution studies nonsense hook, line & sinker. Reducing taxes used to subsidize renewables and pursuing dispatchable electricity generation technologies would do more for their well being and frame of mind than either recycling or climate paranoia.
That word “wellbeing” seems like a slippery, meaningless word. And it should be spelled well being, or being well, or just plain healthy.
I feel the same about “wellness”.
What a waste of time, money and resources. Those who approved the grant should be fired, those who approved the study should be fired, those who conducted the study should be given a grant holiday, those who peer reviewed it should no longer peer review and who ever okayed it to be published should be fired.
Don’t sugar coat it like that, Bob. Tell us how you really feel.
Hey WUWT is a family friendly site 🙂
Humor – a difficult concept.
— Lt. Saavik
Climate-positive actions?
Can I have some Ranch with that salad…
You bring up a good point…..
Whenever some climate clown makes a statement like that, they need to be asked WT* they are talking about !
The whole of the “climate agenda” is held together with trite, utterly meaningless gibberish.
What’s worse is what they are doing to the kids.
All this recycling talk may sound essentially progressive except globally recycling rates have been stuck at under 10% since 2015. This has been attributed to inefficient recycling infrastructure, a shrinking demand for recycled products, an increased use of single use plastic containers, inconsistent recycling regulations and recycling processes that have been costly and continue to remain so. A s a result, no one should expect any big turnaround in attitudes regarding the entire process general populations consider convenience a greater priority than any supposedly environment-saving actions.
KMSP advertises recycling all their non-metal trash into excited electrons. That’s very exciting!
a fatted calf or young goat might help too
what are they (recyclers) going to do
towith them (calves & goats)?(I get so anxious these days when I have to use any pronouns)
thanks smokey
Know what would be nice? Tags on articles, UK/EU/AUS, so we can stop wasting time reading about idiots like this.
The Climate Change™ fairy tale has made us all victims. We all need to cooperate to reduce our carbon footprint or else we all die a horrible death from global boiling in the near future.
If you are not a victim of Climate Change™ because you do not believe the fairy tale then you will be crucified by the mob. So still a victim but for different reason.
The birth rate in most western nations is not at a level to sustain society. Korea probably the worst and is facing a demographic mountain of old aged. So enough young people have taken the message to heart and do not want to procreate for fear of bringing a person into the world to suffer a horrible fate.
Another thing that is affecting everyone is the higher cost of energy, and the higher risk of blackouts.
This especially applies in countries and states that have swallowed the “Net-Zero” and “renewables” nonsense.
Good points Will.
I think it would also be instructive for agitators for one-in / all-in “One World Government” to be presented with what each & every governed citizen would then be on the hook for if their country had to pick up a contributing share of the aggregated national debt & interest liabilities of all the 193 UN member countries, including the USA, all the EU countries, the UK, China, India, African nations, Canada, Australia, Argentina, etc etc etc.
When I get time, I’ll try an AI question.
While the “burning planet” certainly has a major impact on birthrate, so does the cost of raising a child. As energy costs irrationally rise, some are opting out as unable to afford kids.
Our duty was to provide a better life for our kids, a better world.
That has always been a struggle.
Our duty included preparing them for the challenges, not known, that lay ahead.
We fundamentally failed the past 2-3 generations.
Hey, I’m in for recycling several million left wing whack jobs, liberals, democrats (a tautology, I know) and various others. Soylent Green, after all IS people….
No thanks.. just feed them bug soup.. leave the steak and real food to those who want it.
The last thing I would want to be fed is recycled, pre-digested leftists.. YUCK !!
Are you sure that is safe and effective?
Contact the FDA and see if eating people is per government guidance.
After all, we would not want a woke virus pandemic.
Fabian Lenhard seems to be heavily into recycling garbage AGW MANTRA.
Starts as bovex.. ends as bovex
“Climate change affects our daily life.”
Really..!?
In what way ??
Just another “throw-it-out-there” meaningless piece of jargon.
Any bit of weather, good or bad, causes climate change. Climate is a 30 year running average of weather.
Personally, I feel that 30yr window is too short. At 76 I’ve seen, by that ridicules measurement 2 climate cycles? How did I ever survive drought, flood, heat, cold, solar cycles…? Give me a break. Oh, add Democratic administrations to that list.
“The ongoing awareness of climate change”
Rubbish!!!
Without all the manic yabbering from brain-washed climate twits, no-one would be aware of a tiny increase in temperature….
…and according to the IPCC and real data, nothing else about the climate has changed.
It is not “awareness”… it is a rancid anti-science belief in a fantasy.
Since math is being presented as racist and climate/climate change is statistics, we can not present without being racist.
Do you not embrace circular logic?
/s
Press on, mate.
What about my stress from recycling three types of classified material and getting to the proper collection point. Then there is the stress of knowing monthly bills have gone up for recycling and big recycling trucks are using lots of fossil fuel and adding noise pollution in the neighborhood.
We all must make sacrifices for the good of the cause, right?
/s
So paying higher taxes and energy rates and the consequent inflation of everything else won’t be depressing, but at least I can be assured of no more depressing droughts?
Right. Just non-depressing droughts.
Recycling mandates in the UK increase costs to local authorities for collection, triage and disposal. These cost are passed on to householders in their council tax bills.
Other environmental mandates have increased costs of rubbish disposal in landfill, also passed on in council tax bills, but these high costs have resulted in a significant increase in fly-tipping where private contractors and homeowners dump rubbish in the countryside to avoid the costs.
Local councils incur the cost of clearing up the mess, passed on to householders in their council tax bills.
Environmentalism results in some of the most costly and unnecessary activities inflicted upon us.
For most people, household bills have always caused mental distress. Only when they work hard and save are they less stressed by it, and it takes a while to achieve that- usually a decade, certainly not overnight.
Classic correlation seen as causation. My guess is that ‘greener’ households tend to be better off in the first place, hence the higher life satisfaction. The act of recycling etc has nothing to do with it.