And the psychological damage is not only over what is happening now, but what is likely going to happen in the future.
“This kind of anticipatory anxiety is especially crippling and is increasingly being seen among climate activists — in some cases rising to the level of a kind of ‘pre-traumatic’ stress disorder,” she added.
So climate activists are working themselves into a state. For their own health they need an emergency course in Aristotelian logic.
“Because of the magnitude of the problem, and the fact that our leaders are not responding commensurate with the threat, feelings of vulnerability are repressed and cause unseen psychological damage,” she added.