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How to Ignore Climate Change
Psychology Today ^ | October 13, 2018 | by Grant Hilary Brenner MD, FAPA

Posted on 10/15/2018 7:59:50 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Disturbing research on how climate change is hurting our emotional well-being.

Climate change is a major stressor in contemporary life. There is not a single day that we don’t read about the hazards of climate change, learn about a horrible disaster plausible connected with climate change. For those of us who accept the science, we often feel outrage at people - especially those in power - who not only refute climate change, but roll-back efforts intended to address the hazards facing our planet and species. In addition to outrage, shame, sorrow, helplessness, fear, disgust, resilience eroding cynicism, and the like... nothing good for emotional wellness.

What kind of animal are we to continue down this path, faced with what we now know?

There's no question, that at least subjectively the day-in-day-out barrage of terrifying news causes massive amounts of anxiety, whether you are someone who numbs out, worries actively, and/or is trying to do something about climate change. This is truly the stuff of nightmares, as anyone afflicted with apocalyptic nightmares can tell you.

Ongoing research can start to look at these factors so we can understand what is happening when climate change impairs emotional well-being and identify areas of intervention to make us more resilient. If climate change continues to escalate as scientists predict, and the United Nations stridently warns, and we fail to heed these warnings, we open ourselves up to unfathomable, preventable horrors which will affect everyone. Understanding why people refute climate change will help to develop ways to educate, and persuade.

(Excerpt) Read more at psychologytoday.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; hoax; propaganda; socialism
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Grant Hilary Brenner, MD, FAPA is a psychiatrist and an expert on mental health, relationships, and self-care and wellness who has been featured on CBS Radio, NPR, and more.

Paul Joseph Goebbels was a German Nazi politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945.

1 posted on 10/15/2018 7:59:50 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

For starters, be a good FReeper and don’t read this article.

the other day I had a sugar filled carbonated and caffeinated beverage in a large Styrofoam cup, with a plastic lid and a straw.


2 posted on 10/15/2018 8:02:22 AM PDT by cyclotic ( Democrats must be politically eviscerated, disemboweled and demolished.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Winter hit Texas early this year. That’s hurting my emotional well being.


3 posted on 10/15/2018 8:03:32 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We would have to live 10,000 times longer to see the Climate change


4 posted on 10/15/2018 8:03:54 AM PDT by butlerweave
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Climate Change is an economic weapon.


5 posted on 10/15/2018 8:05:52 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Climate change is a major stressor in contemporary life.

Only for the gullible.

6 posted on 10/15/2018 8:06:22 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: butlerweave

7 posted on 10/15/2018 8:06:53 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Climate change is a major stressor in contemporary life.

Is it?

Is it really?

8 posted on 10/15/2018 8:07:26 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: cyclotic

the other day I had a sugar filled carbonated and caffeinated beverage in a large Styrofoam cup, with a plastic lid and a straw.


extra points if you left your car idling while you bought it


9 posted on 10/15/2018 8:09:30 AM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It reads like a snowflakes’ manifesto.

I mean, geez you can’t make this stuff up!

And you wanna know why you can’t? Because you’re likely a FReeper, which means you got at least half a brain.


10 posted on 10/15/2018 8:09:48 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: All

Truth: There IS “climate change”...Has been ever since there has been an “Earth”...

False: Man has created “climate change” or can do anything about it...


11 posted on 10/15/2018 8:15:19 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This is truly the stuff of nightmares, as anyone afflicted with apocalyptic nightmares can tell you.

Dude, you need help if you’re afflicted.

Now, I have nightmares but they are usually that
I’m back working for my former boss and they usually
end in apocalyptic collapse but they aren’t about
apocalyptic collapse.


12 posted on 10/15/2018 8:16:33 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So many fantasies to obsess over.


13 posted on 10/15/2018 8:20:14 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: bagster
Climate change is a major stressor in contemporary life.

Yeah, that's exactly where I stopped reading...

14 posted on 10/15/2018 8:21:04 AM PDT by Quality_Not_Quantity (If I had a dollar for every gender, I'd have two dollars. And a bunch of counterfeit ones.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
What is the baseline year? What is the baseline temperature profile we should be attempting to reach? What is the 'right' climate? Do we expect to keep the current climate as is, and never let it change? These questions need to be answered.
15 posted on 10/15/2018 8:21:54 AM PDT by olepap (Your old Pappy)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Grant Hilarity Brenner MD, FAPA”


16 posted on 10/15/2018 8:22:18 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The climate has always been changing since the beginning of time.

We are just along for the ride.


17 posted on 10/15/2018 8:24:26 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Quality_Not_Quantity

Only in leftist land!

Of course, they also believe in unicorns and men in dresses being women. Tells you all you need to know about their mental “health” issues.


18 posted on 10/15/2018 8:24:40 AM PDT by Maskot (soPut every dem/lib in prison...like yesterday!!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Like toddlers throwing a temper tantrum because they don’t get their way.

Tough. Deal with it.


19 posted on 10/15/2018 8:25:21 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How to ignore climate change?....don’t watch TV.


20 posted on 10/15/2018 8:25:49 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.- George Orwell)
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