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 we’re not going to be able to survive the conditions she’s 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.
What’s 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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She woke up and realized it was a dream, as the earth was actually freezing as it moved farther away from the sun.
So choose your poison, snowflakes.
What about when we charged the Japs at San Juan Hill?????
Belief in global warming is threatening the emotional health of humans worldwide.
I think I see the problem with their thought process.
How’s Tipper????
What a steaming pile of Anti-Colonialism Nonsense.
CBS probably needed someone to explain the words longer than “Cat”
FAKE NEWS
To all suffering a sense of despair from ‘unchecked climate change’ - please remove yourself from the human race ASAP so it is no longer polluted by you. If you look around, you should be able to find a tall bridge or other similar object, feel perfectly free to jump off it sans bungee or parachute as long as there are no people below.
Everything was fine with our system until the power grid was shut off by dickless here....could be fitting for Gore ;)
“depleted farmland”
...stop right there. The earth is getting greener.
The biggest thing to notice about “climate change” is that there’s NEVER EVER EVER EVER a single GOOD thing predicted to come out of it. All of the far left policies “just happen” to be the solution to the problem.
The same people would be running around in circles if they were told and became convinced “the sky was falling”.
Got it? It’s not that their despair proves the validity of climate change. It’s that their despair proves they are gullible. There is no sin in gullibility, but there is malevolence in deliberately convincing people that they are doomed by forces over which they have no control.
Yeah, that ‘depleted farmland’ kinda puzzled me,too. Not sure where that is happening except where the developers are paving over fields for more houses for our growing population. Maybe if they cut off some of the inflow of people legal and illegal, we’ll see some mitigation of that ‘problem’.
LOL! LOL!
Van Wanker? This whole piece is a satire, right.
So there were no extreme weather events before globull warming?
From a physics guy: the article is unmitigated BS.
Yes. If you follow the link to the “studies” it links to an abstract of a study from a “public health” publication.
The public health “study” assumes that there has been an increase of “extreme” weather events due to “climate change”.
The problem, of course is that there has *not* been any increase in “extreme” weather events, so the very premise of the study is false to begin with.
I always tell these watermelons (green on the outside, red on the inside) “if you truly want to lower your carbon footprint, then go blow your brains out,dumbass” he he.
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