Posted on 10/03/2021 5:02:56 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
"It's a kind of hopelessness I guess. Helplessness," says Ross Simpson, 22, from Glasgow. He's telling me how he and his friends feel about stopping the worst effects of climate change.
The warnings keep coming of more heatwaves, droughts, floods, and global temperatures going up and up and up. Seeing so many negative stories in the news only makes Ross feel worse. Like many, he worries it's already too late.
"What difference does changing your lifestyle actually make in the grand scheme of things? Why do anything, if we're all doomed anyway?"
Noor Elmasry, 22, has been having similar conversations with her friends across the Atlantic, in Chicago. "I think a lot of the frustration manifests from seeing people in power just constantly disappoint you," she says.
Their feelings are shared by young people around the world. In a recent survey, 10,000 young people were asked about climate change. Three quarters said the future of the world was frightening, while more than half said they thought humanity was doomed.
Feelings of fear, shame, guilt, anger and frustration have been given a name: climate anxiety. And it's on the rise.
Repeatedly, scientists said taking action in their own lives helped to ease their anxieties.
Many were proud of the scientific work they had been part of, but some also spoke about doing simpler things: recycling, eating a plant-based diet, insulating their homes, going on marches and engaging with politics.
Dr Nana Ama Browne Klutse, a scientist who contributed to a major report on climate change this year, said she occasionally planted mango saplings by the roadside.
Would it save the world on its own? No. Did it make her feel a bit better? Yes.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
I know what I could teach a climate scientist about removing a size 10-1/2 from his ass!
“said she occasionally planted mango saplings by the roadside.”
If this keeps up, they’ll be growing bananas in Scotland.
CAGW is now a Mental Disease.
These educated idiots simply need to live their lives and quit worrying about all the gloom and doom of maybes and possibles. Seriously.
Child and mentally feeble abuse.
And here I thought children and retards were in protected classes.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/10/02/the-new-pause-that-goes-on-giving/
Invite me to the kick-off and I’ll bring my size 14!
Cut China’s industrial production by two-thirds (IOW,back to where it was in the late 80s) and the problem’s solved.
For me, “commie anxiety” and “loss of the Republic” anxiety rank a million times higher on my concerns list.
When I was 22, I was focused on what was the cheapest beer, if I was going to get a job after college, and how much money I had in my bank account for the weekend.
I wasn't worried about the Cold War, the Soviets, or what my friends in jolly old England thought about Reagan.
I suspect many of the youths concerned about the environment don't have God in their lives, have selfish, erm, divorced parents who never imparted any sense of balance in their thinking, and are part of the upper decile in terms of (familial) wealth and "being well off."
“What difference does changing your lifestyle actually make in the grand scheme of things?”
You’re looking in all the wrong places for the answer to this question.
Don’t you ever take a day off?
This is how it works. Convince a couple of generations that “climate change” is going to kill them. They go crazy with “Green Energy”, which can’t possibly support the population we now have. So millions of people starve to death, but it’s not gonna be them, (they think). Objectives of the Club of Rome accomplished. The End.
Useful idiot.
Faith in God brings Joy
Which would you rather have?
Scotland should be happy about any global warming, they have a long way to go just to get comfortable outside.
Actually, I’ve come to believe it is not primarily the money.
Not after covid and it’s fakeness invented to remove President Trump.
I haven’t done it ( and probably won’t ), but just like gun control and mass shootings seem to pop up when there’s some kind of crisis or event they’d rather didn’t get too much exposure, I think climate change is just another red herring drawn across the trail of the Satanists’ intent on destroying and/or ruling over God’s personal creations .....
man and woman.
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