Posted on 07/10/2023 11:33:24 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
… As climate change intensifies, future generations will inherit a profoundly altered planet. They will inhabit a planet with poorer air quality, heightened risk of illnesses like Lyme disease, and a myriad of other detrimental medical conditions.
Given its drastic effects, climate change can prompt understandable feelings of anxiety about the future. A recent worldwide study found that 84% of 16- to 25-year-olds expressed at least moderate worries about climate change. In Canada, more than 78% of young people have reported that climate change has impacted their mental health.
Children with such anxious feelings are more likely to feel depressed, sad and less motivated in their lives.
Parents and caregivers may have different reasons for not discussing climate change with their children. Some may find it difficult to explain technical climate science facts, particularly to young children. Others may intuitively want to shield their children from the worrying effects of climate change, thus avoiding the topic.
Despite these concerns, it is important to have open and honest discussions with children about climate change.
Climate change is having major consequences on our world, sparking conversations in classrooms and on social media. It is important for parents to join these discussions to help instill values and create an open space for children to discuss their thoughts and feelings about climate change.
Sometimes, this may mean having honest conversations about the upcoming challenges. At other times, this may mean providing comfort and reassurance about the future.
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
Now where did I put my hip boots???
It’s impacting “researchers” for sure. Their mental health has deteriorated.
FYI: It appears that G0ebbel$ images are being censored and de-linked by the powers that be...
Educate? With lies? Typical and SOP for the Left.
When I was a child in the 70s, they:
Engaged me — sat me down in the classroom, and
Educated me — with lies about the coming Ice Age and now I am
Empowered — to see through their lies and tell them to go to hell.
Engage - Okay kids, see that giant flaming ball in the sky? That is what makes the weather here on Earth. That, and the Earth itself.
Educate - I did that with the above.
Empower - If anyone wants to take money, choices, life away from you because they want to ‘save the Earth’, make them start with themselves.
Some left-idiot on Twitter was complaining that it’s almost as hot now as it was 30,000 years ago. Great - how many F150’s were driving around back then to make it so warm?
What about the cold between now and then?
Maroons, all of them.
So what mental moron wrote this BS article?
Its “empower” that worries me. Are we going to have to deal with a bunch of self-righteous pontificating 7 year olds who know it all??
Parts of this are absolutely sickening.
Brainwashing for fun and profit!
The three E’s are:
Every Environmentalist is Evil
Wait. Three E’s. Got it.
DeceivE.
Enslave.
GenocidE.
How about 4 letters to discuss discussing climate change with children:
STFU
And instead of trying to scare children about the weather, in order to make them easier to control, why not focus on teaching them the three Rs instead?
https://earthsky.org/earth/whats-hottest-earth-has-ever-been/
“ Between 600 and 800 million years ago — a period of time geologists call the Neoproterozoic — evidence suggests the Earth underwent an ice age so cold that ice sheets not only capped the polar latitudes, but may have extended all the way to sea level near the equator. Reflecting ever more sunlight back into space as they expanded, the ice sheets cooled the climate and reinforced their own growth. Obviously, the Earth didn't remain stuck in the freezer, so how did the planet thaw?”
“Stretching from about 66-34 million years ago, the Paleocene and Eocene were the first geologic epochs following the end of the Mesozoic Era. (The Mesozoic—the age of dinosaurs—was itself an era punctuated by “hothouse” conditions.) Geologists and paleontologists think that during much of the Paleocene and early Eocene, the poles were free of ice caps, and palm trees and crocodiles lived above the Arctic Circle. The transition between the two epochs around 56 million years ago was marked by a rapid spike in global temperature.”
“During the PETM, the global mean temperature appears to have risen by as much as 5-8°C (9-14°F) to an average temperature as high as 73°F. (Again, today's global average is shy of 60°F.) At roughly the same time, paleoclimate data like fossilized phytoplankton and ocean sediments record a massive release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, at least doubling or possibly even quadrupling the background concentrations.“
“Earth's hottest periods — the Hadean, the late Neoproterozoic, the PETM — occurred before humans existed. Those ancient climates would have been like nothing our species has ever seen.”
“Modern human civilization, with its permanent agriculture and settlements, has developed over just the past 10,000 years or so. The period has generally been one of low temperatures and relative global (if not regional) climate stability.”“
Now, it seems to me that the climate has been changing constantly, albeit at times chaotically, since Day One. That is the nature of Nature. Some species have adapted and have continued to exist. Others have not adapted and have gone extinct. Let’s cut out the scare tactics and the idea that we have the wherewithal to change Nature and spend the time and energy educating our kids about adapting to the changes as they occur.
I rarely comment on religious threads. Especially ones on Doomsday Cults.
Forgiving you for not adding the barf alert.
In the 1990s our little nephew was playing with empty plastic bottles on the floor and said something about giving some to somewhere I couldn’t understand. His father said “That’s how he pronounces giving back to the Earth. The teachers are telling them all about ecology and global warming in school.”
Now both nephews are adult always Dem voting climate change fanatics.
Similar story. I saw one of their cartoon shows as I walked by. A team of diverse race boys and girls had uncovered the source of some industrial waste polluting the river. The CEO looked like either Karl Rove, Roger Ailes or Rush Limbaugh.
They brought that villainous man to justice.
More like Browbeat, Indoctrinate and Arm
In the 60s they told me Pluto was a planet.
I knew better at 8 years old.
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