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Climate anxiety on the rise as heat, disasters provoke fear
The Hill ^ | 08/30/2023 | Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech

Posted on 08/30/2023 5:22:51 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Britt Wray’s fears about a warming planet came to a head in 2017 when she and her partner first talked about having a baby.

Wray worked as a science communicator at the time and was bombarded with scientific reports on climate change “day in and day out,” as well as reading several bombshell articles on the subject that came out that year.

“It was really this question of do I sit with the uncertainty of how bad this all might get and how nations will respond and powerholders will potentially act responsibly at some point,” said Wray, who now works as an instructor on climate and mental health at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

“Do I feel okay bringing a child into this situation? With disasters piling up and so on so forth … that really unleashed my own climate distress volcano.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anxiety; climate; disasters; globalwarminghoax; heat
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These people need a rubber room ASAP. Media does its job well creating panic.
1 posted on 08/30/2023 5:22:51 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Same with covid. See a pattern?


2 posted on 08/30/2023 5:26:05 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (e allowed )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If you want to see the craziest people on the internet, read the threads in the ‘Collapse’ sub at Reddit.

Here’s an example
https://reddit.com/r/collapse/s/2stmKK0EzN


3 posted on 08/30/2023 5:27:09 AM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This is a classic example of “shovel ready jobs”…pre written and instant tweeks can be made to fit any woke grievance or weather pattern at a moment’s notice.


4 posted on 08/30/2023 5:27:16 AM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

For the sake of the child, it’s probably better for the potential mother to not reproduce, unless it can be assured that the kid would be adopted by a sane male/female couple.


5 posted on 08/30/2023 5:29:10 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Faux News: "We distort, you deride")
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"...my own climate distress volcano"

They're batsh•t crazy, and will get us all killed.

6 posted on 08/30/2023 5:32:43 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

i dont see the problem

all LEFTYs decide to not have any children

its a good thing


7 posted on 08/30/2023 5:36:30 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: Levy78
Love the images they use, subtle /s
boom
8 posted on 08/30/2023 5:36:54 AM PDT by The Louiswu (PEDO JOE MUST GO!!!)
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"...my own climate distress volcano"

Is that used to dispense soothing aromas, like a plug-in Glade thing, or is this more like a Benhani Choo-Choo Onion?

9 posted on 08/30/2023 5:38:30 AM PDT by Bernard ("No matter where you go, there you are." (Buckaroo Banzai))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

‘“Do I feel okay bringing a child into this situation? With disasters piling up and so on so forth … that really unleashed my own climate distress volcano.”

Wray, who ended up writing a book on climate anxiety, is not alone in her feelings.’

I believe we ought to encourage all the Greeniacs to discontinue having children to ease their climate distress and help “save the PLanet”.


10 posted on 08/30/2023 5:38:45 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Bernard

More like “Soothing, Gentle BS Breeze”.


11 posted on 08/30/2023 5:41:27 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Climate Anxiety”...

Ahhhh....A new phrase of the woke leftists...I’ve seen this now 3 times used by The Hill....


12 posted on 08/30/2023 5:45:02 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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Climate  anxiety 

Climate psychosis, more like.

13 posted on 08/30/2023 5:45:35 AM PDT by tomkat
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To: JBW1949

Just wait until “climate psychosis” really kicks into gear. It already has taken hold of some.


14 posted on 08/30/2023 5:46:26 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Maskot

Yep


15 posted on 08/30/2023 5:56:30 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Climate anxiety on the rise as heat, disasters CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, the New York Times, the Washington Post, schools, colleges, universities, democrats, liberals, progressives, socialists, and communists, etc., provoke fear
16 posted on 08/30/2023 6:01:43 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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https://www.brittwray.com

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Climate Grief | Britt Wray, PhD
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17 posted on 08/30/2023 6:02:03 AM PDT by dennisw (Never attribute to incompetence& stupidity, that which is adequately explained by malice)
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She looks like she could use some therapy.


18 posted on 08/30/2023 6:02:51 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: ChicagoConservative27
"Cultivated Climate anxiety on the rise as NON-STOP HYSTERICAL PROPAGANDA heat, disasters provoke fear"

Fixed it.

19 posted on 08/30/2023 6:06:14 AM PDT by Joe Brower ("Might we not live in a nobler dream than this?" -- John Ruskin)
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To: dennisw
The face of Piling it High and Deep.
20 posted on 08/30/2023 6:14:40 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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