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Can a Climate Cafe Help You Deal with Your Feelings About the Weather?
Jim Treacher Substack ^ | 20 Mar 2024 | Jim Treacher

Posted on 03/23/2024 7:32:50 AM PDT by Rummyfan

Let’s say you’re talking to somebody you don’t know very well, or somebody you know so well that you’ve run out of things to say. Where does the discussion usually go?

That’s right: the weather! It’s a safe topic because everybody experiences it, it’s different from one day to the next, and it’s pretty easy to agree on it.

“Nice day, huh?” “Yep.”

“Hot enough for ya?” “You can say that again!”

“Weatherman said rain tomorrow.” “Well, you know how often he gets it right.”

Etc.

But did you know that talking about the weather can actually help save the planet? Get thee to a climate cafe!

Lola Fadulu and Emily Schmall, NYT:

In a small room in Lower Manhattan, a group of eight New Yorkers sat in a circle sharing kombucha and their climate fears against the background of pattering rain and wailing sirens.

In Champaign, Ill., a psychotherapist facilitating a meeting for other therapists held up a branch of goldenrod, asking the half-dozen participants online to consider their connection to nature.

And in Kansas City, Mo., a nonprofit that runs a weekly discussion on Zoom began its session with a spiritual reading and a guided meditation before breaking into groups to discuss topics like the ethics of childbearing amid a fast-rising global population and concerns of resource scarcity.

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1 posted on 03/23/2024 7:32:50 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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Climate/weather Mental Disorder


2 posted on 03/23/2024 7:40:54 AM PDT by butlerweave
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“Feelings about the weather”?

Do they mean like:

“Boo hood it’s raining, I feel so depressed”?

The “weather” doesn’t bother me one iota. Nor does the state of the climate or the scant amount of co2 in the atmosphere (which calculates out to man’s contribution of specifically co2 only, is just 0.00136% of the atmosphere- nope, not one bit worried about something so small that can not possibly affect the climate one tiny little bit)


3 posted on 03/23/2024 7:44:34 AM PDT by Bob434
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No, but it can empty the pockets of idiots.


4 posted on 03/23/2024 7:45:28 AM PDT by Reno89519 (If Biden is mentally unfit to stand trial, he is mentally unfit to be president. He needs to resign.)
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... discuss topics like the ethics of childbearing amid a fast-rising global population and concerns of resource scarcity.

Meanwhile, the US is falling below replacement rate on child births and third-world countries (where nobody joins Zoom sessions with spiritual readings and a guided meditations) are at 2X or 3X replacement rate.

Whites of European ancestry are breeding themselves out of existence. When they are all gone, there will be nobody left to join the Zoom Sessions, spiritual readings, and guided meditations.

5 posted on 03/23/2024 7:50:25 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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So there are Joe Biden Cafes coming soon?


6 posted on 03/23/2024 7:52:06 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting…)
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Not a warm and fuzzy feeling....freezing my butt off here in Upstate NY


7 posted on 03/23/2024 7:53:03 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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Enjoy that cup of coffee with the beans floating in cold water.


8 posted on 03/23/2024 7:57:43 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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If you're in a cafe and buying drinks there, then your carbon footprint is larger than if you made your drinks at home.

These dunderheads are destroying the planet while whinging about the planet being destroyed.

They're no better than the likes of Al Gore jetting about the planet telling us to live more simply.

9 posted on 03/23/2024 7:57:48 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (What is left around which to circle the wagons?action )
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Meanwhile, the US is falling below replacement rate on child births and third-world countries (where nobody joins Zoom sessions with spiritual readings and a guided meditations) are at 2X or 3X replacement rate.

Nope.

In the entire world fertility is falling.

Something has gone badly wrong.

Don't take my word for it. Look up the world wide fertility statistics since 1950. They have dropped off a cliff.

10 posted on 03/23/2024 7:57:54 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love being on the government watch list, along with all of you.)
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I would go and complain loudly that it’s too hot in here and to turn up the air conditioner.


11 posted on 03/23/2024 8:00:06 AM PDT by Ken H (Trump 2024)
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The stupid is everywhere now.


12 posted on 03/23/2024 8:00:43 AM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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Dropped off a cliff in Europe after WW I and WW II. Fatalism, ennui, and loss of two generations of men did it.

It has fallen FAR FAR faster in Western Europe and now the USA than developing parts of the world.


13 posted on 03/23/2024 8:03:07 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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Let's see what's on today's menu ...


14 posted on 03/23/2024 8:07:19 AM PDT by x
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Sessions of the Climate Warming Cult!


15 posted on 03/23/2024 8:27:07 AM PDT by AZJeep
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This is a good thing. It collects all the brain-dead NPc’s in one place where they can get hugs and comfort each other. Now, lock the doors.


16 posted on 03/23/2024 8:48:32 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo, )
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To: butlerweave

We’re in a sad state of affairs if people need psychotherapy for anxiety over weather.


17 posted on 03/23/2024 9:02:59 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: Bob434

Did you watch that climate movie there was a thread on the other day?

I already believed that the climate crisis stuff is one big scam, but this reinforced it completely.


18 posted on 03/23/2024 9:04:32 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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There’s always a catastrophe just around the corner. We’re always 12 years away from the end. I’m not sure why it’s always 12 years, but that’s their usual timeframe. Then, when 12 years pass and the world still hasn’t ended, the calendar is reset.

Somehow, this keeps working. It keeps everybody in a perpetual state of crisis, which keeps Al Gore’s wallet as fat as he is.

The late Michael Crichton covered this well in State of Fear.

19 posted on 03/23/2024 9:37:13 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.c)
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The “weather” doesn’t bother me one iota.

I can usually predict weather changes because my hip starts aching.

20 posted on 03/23/2024 9:39:59 AM PDT by gitmo (If your biography doesn't match your theology, what good is it?)
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