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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Dr. Wanker ???
Oh yeah.
“A sense of despair”: The mental health cost for the believers of climate change
An error in the title. It should be The Malleable Mind of the Misinformed Mob.
Once again they have it backward. Climate Change does not affect mental health. Mental health affects climate change.
Or at least the perception thereof.
The “sense of despair” is among the “Climate Change” scientists who see that the government $$$$$ gravy train is ending under Trump.
The world is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions!
Mayor: What do you mean, “biblical”?
Dr. Raymond Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type stuff.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Exactly.
Dr. Raymond Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!
Ghostbusters (1984)
From a physics guy: the article is unmitigated BS.
good grief.
Humans survived the last ice age for over 11,000 years with nothing but sticks, rocks and animal skins.
We will be fine.
What a great start for a humor section from CBS news.
Really? How does one get a degree in that?...........
“A sense of despair”: The mental health cost of unchecked climate change
WILL WE? WILL WE BE FINE?
were we fine when the Germans bombed Pearl harbor?
No they didn't. They are all dead!
We are all going to die! In less than 125 years every man, woman and child now living on Earth will be dead!!
It's Trump's fault. Womyn and minorities will be hardest hit.
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
So wait.
What you are telling me is, not only will this fake Global Warming not hurt us, but it will drive liberals to suicide?
(cranks air conditioning, then runs outside, and starts Humvee and spare car)
Since climate is never static, these pathetic people are constantly under mental duress (i.e., they’re consistently not in their “right mind”!)
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