Or Just Plain Nuts?

IBD ^ | April 18, 2008

[Kaslin]

Psychology: The alarms that environmental extremists have sounded have given rise to a market for therapists who treat eco-anxiety. What a concept! Scare the wits out of people, then make money off their fear.

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It's possible that none of the 100 or so "eco-therapists" practicing in the U.S. have been part of the environmentalist shock campaign. Or it could be that, at more than $100 an hour, these practitioners are simply taking advantage of others' weaknesses.

But given that the treatments they're prescribing — taking shorter showers, turning off lights, making do with less — are scrawled on the stone tablet of environmentalist commandments, it's no surprise.

"Fear, grief, anger, confusion and depression," Sarah Edwards told Fox News in explaining the eco-anxiety that caused her neck and shoulder pain, fibromyalgia and fatigue.

Last month, the British Independent reported that eco-anxiety can be responsible for overeating, despondency, bulimia, depression and alcoholism.

Whatever happened to our sense of proportion and basic powers of observation? Is it possible that people suffering from eco-anxiety are, as the Independent asked, "just plain nuts"?

What's clear is that Western society has achieved such a level of prosperity that some of us have the time and energy to let ourselves be consumed with worry and guilt over a problem that may very well be imaginary.

Let no one say that this world of abundance has come at the expense of the environment. Despite the psychoses, our earth is a cleaner, more livable place than it was even 40 years ago.

[sionnsar]

What's clear is that Western society has achieved such a level of prosperity that some of us have the time and energy to let ourselves be consumed with worry and guilt over a problem that may very well be imaginary.
Let no one say that this world of abundance has come at the expense of the environment. Despite the psychoses, our earth is a cleaner, more livable place than it was even 40 years ago.

Even 40 years ago it was "fashionable" to have a shrink. What was the movie send-up of this, "What's Up, Pussycat"?

[CASchack]

There was a time in this country when people suffering from such a malady would have been taken into custody and given a lunacy hearing.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Vis á vis what you and I were rolling our eyes about this evening in my kitchen.

[hinckley buzzard]

Is it possible that people suffering from eco-anxiety are, as the Independent asked, "just plain nuts"?

Yes.

[sig226]

I prescribe restraints and trephination for cases of eco anxiety. Works wonders. I’m a trained professional.

[SuziQ]

"Fear, grief, anger, confusion and depression," Sarah Edwards told Fox News in explaining the eco-anxiety that caused her neck and shoulder pain, fibromyalgia and fatigue.

It just goes to show what an affluent society we are that there are people who have nothing else to worry about that they make themselves sick worrying about the environment. If she truly wants to be ill, she needs to live in China for a while, then maybe she'll have a more balanced idea of just how clean the US actually is.

[GATOR NAVY]

I’ve got a treatment for for anyone who suffers from “eco-anxiety” and it’s 100% effective.

I give them a gun and they blow their brains out for being too effin stupid to deserve life.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks neverdem.

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