One of the saddest aspects of the ongoing climate hoax is how it is affecting the mental health of the public, especially children. After decades of gloomy prophecies, many people have come to the conclusion that the world would be better off with less carbon dioxide emissions, one of the greenhouse gases that alarmists claim is causing excessive global warming.
'Climate-smart' therapists
Fortunately, a new field of psychotherapy has emerged to help deal with this sense of despair of “climate anxiety.” Networks of “climate-aware” therapists are being built across the US, UK and Canada to help people deal with the mental health impacts of climate change.
According to the Climate Psychology Alliance, these “climate-conscious” therapists are “professionally trained psychotherapists who recognize that the climate crisis is both a global threat to all life on Earth and a deeply personal threat to the mental and physical health of each individual, family, and community on the planet—to their sense of safety, meaning, and purpose.”
Their goal is to “use their unique psychotherapeutic skills to address the multiple psychological crises resulting from increasing destabilization of the Earth system.”
Young people vulnerable to “climate anxiety”
“There's a sense of intergenerational injustice,” says Liz Van Susteren, a psychiatrist in Washington, D.C. “Many young people feel worthless, betrayed and abandoned.”
This feeling of betrayal and abandonment comes despite the fact that people are far less likely to die from weather-related events today than at any time in recorded history.
Young people are particularly vulnerable to this “climate anxiety”: they are bombarded with climate propaganda from an early age, told that their futures are at risk if they do not stop using fossil fuels.
A 2021 Lancet study found that among young people aged 16-25 in 10 countries — Australia, Brazil, Finland, France, India, Nigeria, Philippines, Portugal, the UK and the US — “59% are very or extremely worried about climate change, and 84% are at least moderately worried.” Respondents said they felt “sad, anxious, angry, helpless, powerless and guilty.”
Some have likened media portrayals of climate change and the doom that surrounds it to a form of child abuse.
“Telling children they have no future is certainly abusive,” Linnea Luken of the Heartland Institute told Just the News.
Media that drives the story
A biased media 24/7 is fuelling climate anxiety among young people. “Even 50 years ago, you wouldn't have known what the weather was like in Thailand today, you wouldn't have known if there was a typhoon in India,” Lueken explained.
The sense of hopelessness that pervades young people today is common, with Sweden's Greta Thunberg being a prime example.
“I think this is the first generation that has been taught their whole life that the Earth is coming to an end at some point in their lifetime, that civilization is going to collapse, that their food supply is going to be destroyed,” geologist Dr. Matt Wielicki told Just the News. “We've really manipulated their sense of the future, and that's a shame, because it really takes away their hopes and ambitions.”
The media and ambitious climate fanatics only fuel the frenzy, discounting any news or information that contradicts the climate emergency narrative.
Still, there is recognition among bright thinking people that much of the information being circulated by the media and climate change fanatics is nonsense, much to the dismay of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, who barely mentioned climate change in her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday. Politicians like Harris (or at least those in her inner circle) know that the issue doesn't resonate with voters.
If climate change is an existential threat, shouldn’t we give it more time?
Yet there is a sense of panic among some young people. Despite all evidence to the contrary, young people today feel that their future is bleak and filled with natural disasters.
