Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 04/18/2008 7:08:22 AM PDT by Turret Gunner A20
ECO-ANXIETY
I am afraid that some of your global warming nut jobs out there might be suffering from eco-anxiety. This is, apparently, a real disorder among the environmental nutcases. These are the people that worry about every gallon of gasoline that they burn and every piece of trash they throw away. They worry about it so much to the point where they are actually making themselves sick.
Listen to this ... Sarah Edwards lives in California. She is one of these environmental freaks who is constantly worrying about litter on the beach and pollution in the water. She says that because of her worries about the environment, she now suffers from fear, grief, anger, confusion and depression. This causes her to suffer from neck and shoulder pains and fatigue. Poor poor pitiful Sarah.
Sarah says that she only drives to the grocery store every three weeks. She has her own source of water. Her family has a compost pile and they no longer heat every room on the first floor of their house. And now we have come up with a new label for people like Sarah ... eco-anxious. These are the people who can't handle the thought that they are contributing to global warming, which will eventually lead to the dwindling of natural resources and the extinction of precious species.
So now that we have a new disorder, we now have a new profession: eco-therapists. Eco-therapy or eco-psychology focuses on how much time a person spends in nature, the person's carbon footprint and what individuals are doing to save the planet.
One eco-therapist in Santa Fe says that she treats dozens of patients a month who suffer from eco-anxiety. And of course these therapy sessions come with a price tag upwards of $100 an hour.
This my friends, is a bunch of horsesqueeze. Soon, the government will be forced to pay for eco-therapy sessions, which means more of your tax dollars down the drain to treat the environmental whackos.
I can see it now. The next time someone fails to recycle at the neighborhood government school, they'll run in some eco-counselors to make sure the children can cope with the dirty deed.
Since they are obviously NOT productive members of society, perhaps they should reduce their own carbon footprints to ZERO... the old-fashoined way.
Every time you inhale, you are burning precious oxygen, every time you exhale you are spewing deadly polluting CO2.
You are emitting infrared radiation, peaking at around ten microns. This infrared is trapped on Earth by the CO2 you exhale, warming Earth irreversibly.
Every bite you eat is food that an endangered animal may need to survive.
You are better off than some people.
Focus on these facts for every breath you take and for every beat of your heart.
Every time I read one of these articles I go buy about 100 lbs. of dry ice and let if sublimate of the back porch.
let “it” sublimate “on”. sheesh what a moron.
Not good enough. Where do you think the CO2 came from to make the dry ice? ;>)
I guess liberalism really is a mental disorder.
I like your dry ice idea. Do you have a hot tub? You could chuck a pound of dry ice in at night.
“Since they are obviously NOT productive members of society, perhaps they should reduce their own carbon footprints to ZERO... the old-fashoined way.”
I have thought the same thing for a long time. The population reduction freaks, eco freaks, etc. I say the Gores of the world (If they are truly leaders) need to lead from the front and lead by example.
I know just what you mean. I just went out and started my pickup. It will now idle in the driveway for another 10 minutes. It costs a little more than it used to, but the satisfaction is worth the price.
Yeah....perhaps Sarah should throw herself onto her own compost heap.
I have a preference for cracking open freon lines on old cars, myself.
I’m no scientist, but from my days of shipboard firefighting we were taught that freon is heavier that the atmosphere therefor sank to the decks. We had extensive atmospheric tests to conduct to ensure the low-level air was safe to breath.
I think you are correct. But I only do it because it annoys the eco-weinies. They think it puts holes in the ozone layer or some such.
PS - Thank you for your service to our country. My father is a retired USN Senior Chief. NCOs run the Navy.
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