Links tagged “psychological”
- LA Times: Bye, Bye ‘Climate depression’ – ‘For young Californians, climate change is a mental health crisis too’ – But children are turning to activism & ‘literally organizing out of climate anxiety’
- American Geophysical Union Fail: Climate Change Is Not Harming Mental Health
- ‘I regret having my kids’ – STUDY: Climate change fears keep some Americans from having kids – Feel bad about already having brought children into the world
96.5% of people say they are 'very' or 'extremely' concerned about 'climate change' impact on their potential offspring - The first-of-its-kind study found that 96.5 percent of people surveyed said they were “very” or “extremely” concerned about the impact of global warming on the well-being of their potential offspring, the Guardian said.
“I feel like I can’t in good conscience bring a child into this world and force them to try and survive what may be apocalyptic conditions,” a 27-year-old woman told researchers. Another participant in the study, published in the scientific journal Climatic Change, worried that future weather conditions would “rival world war one in its sheer terror.” In addition to those people who said they’d forgo reproduction, 6 percent said they felt bad about already having brought children into the world, according to the Guardian.
“I regret having my kids because I am terrified that they will be facing the end of the world due to climate change,” a 40-year-old mom said. The study, titled “Eco-reproductive concerns in the age of climate change,” involved 607 Americans between the ages of 27 and 45.
- If you Thought Climate Grief was Strange, Meet the ‘Climate Grief’ Therapists
- NASA’s lead global warming scientist Gavin Schmidt: ‘Most climate deniers are sociopaths’ – Says Morano is also an ‘awful person’
NASA's Director of its Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), Dr. Gavin Schmidt smeared scientific dissenters of man-made climate change claims on September 12, 2020: "A reminder (if one was needed) that most climate deniers are sociopaths," Schmidt wrote about Climate Depot's Marc Morano. Dictionary.com defines a "sociopath" as "a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.""There is no ‘mode of discourse’ that will make Morano suddenly stop being an awful person who is (well) paid to try to prevent any efforts to reduce fossil fuel use by fair means or foul. So, might as well call it as one sees it," Schmidt added. Schmidt has a long history of political and policy activism at NASA. - German Psychotherapists Offer Free Workshops For Youth Struggling With Climate Crisis Emotional Strain
- Sunrise Movement’s leader warns kids ‘share really intense stories of contemplating suicide…because of the climate crisis. It’s not uncommon’
'To solve everything, solve climate' - Sunrise Movement's Varshini Prakash: - Claims 'climate crisis & racial inequality are linked' ...
Anand Giridharadas: "Have you witnessed a shift in the inner experience of youth with this death knell of climate hanging over people’s heads? Do you think a lot of young people feel that their childhoods have been stolen?"
VARSHINI Prakash: "It’s rampant. We'll go to trainings and kids will share really intense stories of contemplating suicide. I don't want to call it nihilism because it's not something theoretical. People are really, really, really feeling this deep sense of foreboding — a lack of agency, basically. "
ANAND: "You’re saying you hear young people contemplating suicide because of climate specifically?"
VARSHINI: "Yes. Because of the climate crisis. It’s not uncommon."
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VARSHINI: 'The climate crisis and racial inequality are linked in causation as well as in effect."
- Crying over ‘climate change’ – Tears, sobbing, & ‘climate grief’ is an actual thing for activists – Special Report
- CLAIM: ‘Mental health’ is ‘the most overlooked consequences of climate change’
"Ecoanxiety. Ecoparalysis. Solastalgia. Call it what you want— when it comes to climate change and mental health, the future is now."
- Study: Children Suffering From Nightmares, Eating Issues Over Climate Change Fears
