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 ...
I’m liking the climate change in Fairbanks over the last few years. It’s been warmer, and that’s OK with me.
I know it is normal, natural, and cyclical. It’s gonna swing into the crazy cold in a year or 2 again.
I have people telling me they have rode motorcycle at the end of October and November in the 1980’s. When I got stationed at Fort Wainwright in 93, it got crazy cold! It was -50 to -60 regularly thru the mid 90’s.
Exactly...It would create famine...
Does he mean the weather and traffic reports before leaving for my morning commute?
-PJ
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