Posted on 01/15/2022 12:37:54 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Jon Reeves first realized that treating climate anxiety would become a regular part of his job in 2016. He was then working in Massachusetts as a student counselor at Boston College, and the country was about to elect noted climate-change denier Donald Trump to the highest office in the land.
“I definitely noticed that students were bringing climate change up as part of their overall concerns,” Reeves, a psychologist, told Yahoo News. “I think there was some stress that came along with the presidential election and concerns that the U.S. government wouldn’t do as much to mitigate climate change with Trump in office.”
Sure enough, Trump made a point of avoiding using the term “climate change” while in office. He also rolled back many of his predecessor's executive actions designed to curb greenhouse gas emissions and pulled the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement, the goal of which was to keep global temperatures from rising above 1.5 degrees Celsius over preindustrial levels.
Two years after Trump was sworn in, Reeves moved to Seattle, where he set up his own therapy practice, but he quickly found that climate anxiety among young people had, if anything, only gotten worse.
“It’s something that hadn’t started out as a focus, but it’s becoming more of one,” Reeves said. “Patients are just bringing it in naturally. Certainly on the West Coast, it’s on people's minds, with the heat waves and flooding and especially the wildfires.”
Kristi White, a clinical health psychologist in Minneapolis, also treats many young adults for issues that stem from the changing climate.
“Some of the things in the patients that I work with are things like asthma exacerbation due to poor air quality from wildfires [and] concerns around the risk for heat-related illnesses during extreme heat waves,” White said.
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The Doomer generation 🤪
Wow! We are raising a generation of sissies!
Not if you idiots in the press stop peddeling the fear!
If there is no God and you think you are responsible for the climate along with the rest of the universe, then yeah, you’re going to have anxiety.
Blatant, shameless propaganda designed to scare women, children and seniors has worked for the Left for decades. It’s what they do.
Everybody is going to die!
Why wait, put yourselves out of
your misery, and spare me the trouble of dealing with your
perceived problems.
That is all.
That’s nice.
Excuse me. I have to go shovel the 8 inches of global warming off of my driveway.
in the meantime, we’re friggin’ freezin’ here in upstate...10 below this morning.
what a bunch of freaks. talk about a self fulfilling prophecy. They are the ones drumming up constant fear and then whine that people are anxious.
I have been in the counseling area and we used to be trained to help people let go of things they can’t control. unfortunately we are brainwashing our new generations that we actually have control over the climate on earth. as if past generations never experienced storms, heat waves,mini ice ages etc
My only climate anxiety is getting caught in the rain without an umbrella or hat. Young people who are foolish enough to believe in “climate change” fears deserve to suffer headaches.
So according to this yahoo the young can just ignore the ice and snow a large part of the nation is going to face tomorrow.
Temperatures rising?
If this guy works for Yahoo in Sunnyvale, he needs to get out more. It’s been cold and snowy and rainy here for weeks up until just about a few days ago. Biggest December snowfall ever supposedly. Which of course a juvenile idiot like him will attribute to climate change as well.
Here’s some facts that may help calm his nervous young patients. Temperatures have risen and fallen throughout the Earth’s history because of wobbles in its tilt and solar activity cycles. The influence of additional carbon dioxide has a negligible affect relative to the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere. We are actually still emerging from the last “little ice age” which has been a period of vast improvements in human civilization due to warmer temperatures and atmospheric water vapor. This made agricultural yields much higher and provided far more food for humans than in earlier “dark age” periods.
Warmer temperatures and higher CO2 concentrations results in a much more fertile and healthier world for all animals including humans. The biggest real existential threat to human life is actually the return of the next ice age, not warming.
Jon Reeves
Grifter.
That is one of the perks of being older (60s) and seeing first hand their BS predictions fall by the wayside unrealized - anxiety free!
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