Posted on 02/27/2017 12:56:28 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Climate change is taking an obvious physical toll on earth: from depleted farmland to the rise of toxic pollution to the degradation of long-stable ecosystems to the disappearance of biodiversity and endangered species.
But looking beyond the physical, experts are also trying to sound the alarm about the quieter, more insidious effects of climate change: namely, that global warming is threatening the emotional health of humans worldwide.
We see a sense of despair that sets in as inevitably Mother Nature, who we think of as our nurturing force, tells us were not going to be able to survive the conditions shes set for us, Dr. Lise Van Wanker, a practicing psychiatrist and expert on the dangers of climate change on mental health.
Study after study shows that climate change has led to an increased burden of psychological disease and injury worldwide, particularly in developing countries.
Whats behind this link? For starters, climate change has normalized extreme weather events. These events, including floods, tornadoes, fires, drought, and sea level rise, are known to trigger mental health problems including post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression, the abuse of alcohol and drugs, and more.
Extreme weather has a particularly disturbing link to increased aggression. In 2013, researchers from Princeton University and the University of California-Berkeley found that even slight spikes in temperature and precipitation have increased the risk of personal violence and social upheaval throughout human history.
Climate change carries enormous political risk for the 21st century, Dr. Van Wanker warned.
In times of peril and scarcity, people regress, she said. They turn to what they perceive as strong leaders to protect them, and are willing to give up their freedoms and values in exchange for perceived security.
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Farmland is being “depleted” by intense monoculture planting. The soil has lost most of its nutrititive content and only a small part of it is replaced year to year by fertilizers. The natural foods people have a point but their response to it is not terribly effective, even for themselves, because their “organic” foods come from much of the same depleted soil.
Two #FakeScience agendas rolled into one!
I think we have reached critical mass here about the moonbats unclear on the cause and effect thing...
Alcohol.
Lots and lots of alcohol...
It's pissin me off!
I've been trying to lose weight for decades,
And still people keep calling me "Jabba..."
Lesson for Today!! Yes, exactly. The problem with people is one main problem, to wit, EGO. To think we are important to the continued smooth running of the universe or the earth is hubris to the nth degree. To think our wee ninsy planet will bend to our will is egotism beyond hubris.
We would face an easier future if we didn’t reproduce like rabbits and if we had considered our place in the cycles of the earth and its climates...but, no, not us. We know best and now we will face huge famines, migrating populations such as we are seeing rising like puke out of the Levant...all looking for a better life within our prevailing religious cults. Stupid isn’t the word for it.
Germans?
Forget it. He's rolling.
A good way to end the snowflakes despair would be mass suicide. If the very presence of human life on this planet disrupts the fragile ecosystem and they are so despairing why not end their despair and thus save the planet? Of course there would have to be some environmentally safe way to dispose of their corpses
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