Posted on 06/19/2025 1:09:13 AM PDT by Libloather
The education news outlet Chalkbeat recently highlighted a Denver, Colo. elementary school that’s teaching students as young as age 3 about environmental damage.
Mental-health professionals praise their efforts, saying the lessons can help prevent “eco-anxiety,” a “chronic fear of environmental doom.”
The mental-health industry’s logic is self-serving: Introduce kids to the idea of Earth’s demise, then step in to manage their worry.
Climate catastrophism has come to the classroom — and, as one educator put it, it’s “scaring the kids to death.”
Human beings aren’t born aware of our supposed environmental crisis.
The fear of climate change — and therapists’ capitalization on that fear — began with adults.
For several years, the American Psychological Association has published articles and warnings about the “significant mental health effects” of eco-anxiety, a pseudo-clinical “condition” it defined in 2017.
Since then, therapists report mounting requests from clients for climate-anxiety treatment — though almost no evidence exist showing climate-specific treatments work.
Nevertheless, professional therapist organizations like the Climate Psychology Alliance of North America, the Climate Psychiatry Alliance and Climate & Mind have proliferated.
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No, the problem is that conservatives chose to stay out of education and teaching, leaving their children to be schooled by the hippie generation. We chose not to participate at all levels of the system. Now we are surprised that others don't think like we do. Not only that, parents chose not to monitor their children's schooling. Worse yet, parents sued the schools when their precious could not make the grades.
More families and fewer tribes, I always say.
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