Posted on 03/06/2024 4:34:08 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Mary Rittle says she experiences climate anxiety every single day. It may be a 55-degree January day in Chicago, when she notices that birds that should have migrated are still around. Or it could be after reading about how melting polar ice caps are endangering people around the world. Even her environmental activism can trigger anxiety because it reminds her of the urgent need for such work.
"This overwhelming sense of worry and fear and helplessness is very easy to get caught up in," says Rittle, who is a freshman at Loyola University Chicago. "I sometimes feel like, what could I possibly do? Why is no one taking this seriously? Why are lawmakers and corporations not taking this seriously?"
But Rittle's activism also helps relieve her anxiety, as does spending time in nature. Another anxiety-buster is having a community of like-minded students at Loyola University Chicago, where she is active in the Restoration Club and a new group, called "Eco-Warriors."
Climate anxiety — sometimes referred to as "eco-anxiety" or "ecological distress" — goes beyond concern for the environmental peril facing the planet because of global warming. It manifests itself much like other anxieties, with intrusive thoughts, sleeplessness, a racing heart or shortness of breath, and interference with relationships, work or school. It can include a range of feelings, from helplessness and sadness, to hopelessness and despair.
Experts say that distress is a normal human response to a crisis. But for young people, climate anxiety can be compounded by social media and other stressors.
(Excerpt) Read more at ncronline.org ...
I’m speechless.
An entire generation of fags and snowflakes. We will not win a war against china
If people believed in climate change real estate in Miami would be the cheapest in the country.
Because it's BS, Mary. Learn some facts, then get a life. You'll feel better.
the government, educrats and media have done their job. These snowflakes are so scared of the future people like AOC and the media have painted for them they are just hoping the government will save them.
They’re so willing to be saved they can’t wait to turn over all their freedoms if they can just live a little longer. Nevermind that none of it is true, they’ve been taught what to think, not how to think.
Also from the National Catholic Reporter...
https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/editorial/editorial-catholics-religious-freedom-stake-border
Uh huh.
“An entire generation of fags and snowflakes.”
Pithy. True.
“An entire generation of fags and snowflakes.”
Growing up their parents got participation trophy’s.
“Mary Rittle says she experiences climate anxiety every single day. “
Any of these idiots who makes it to old age without the slightest difference in the “climate” is going to feel like the asshole they’ve always been.
Giving Mary Rittle something else to worry about......https://www.cato.org/blog/68-americans-wouldnt-pay-10-month-higher-electric-bills-combat-climate-change
“I sometimes feel like, what could I possibly do?”
Like, kill yourself.
Also a fair guess that she is fat, ugly, hair dyed red and inked up, took 5+ kovid krap fake immunity shots, relatively low IQ, no sense of even a 5th grade level knowledge of astronomy, geology, and spends much of her life on TikTok.
I understand, Mary. I feel the same distress when I think about Joe Biden’s destruction of America.
Climate anxiety?...................
https://youtu.be/AMRXqojVyM4?si=gxOD3Db5K0d2g27L&t=9
Well if your a young and black, you’re doubly screwed.
“I have to take benzos for my Climate Anxiety”
“Why do you have Climate Anxiety?”
“So I can take benzos”
perhaps self immolation is the answer for these poor, tortured souls. of course they will be creating more of the global warming that scares them so but hey, they won’t be around to suffer it anymore or be so insufferable themselves. win-win!
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