Climate change as a mental health issue amuses me
Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager
“Climate change is a mental health issue”
Welp, AI must have written this headline.
The headline means something *far different* to me than the author intended.
Climate Panic Scaremongering amuses me, and I tend to ridicule its overt and over-the-top absudity narratives.
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“… Climate disasters can be traumatic during the events themselves — people fleeing from burning structures or evacuating to higher ground to survive floods.
Once a fire has burned out or a storm has passed, new issues present themselves. The disasters can be followed by a multitude of ongoing stressors, such as continued displacement, financial distress and employment uncertainty, lack of safe living arrangements, lack of sufficient aid and assistance to recover or rebuild, and more.
Survivors of climate catastrophes rarely describe getting to rest, grieve, and recover in the aftermath.
… According to a 2023 study titled The Effects of Climate Change, “Traumatic experiences due to extreme weather events increase the risk of affective and anxiety disorders, especially the risk of post-traumatic stress disorder.”
… The fallout from a climate shock can result in vulnerability to predatory behavior while requiring survivors to exhibit emotional vulnerability to seek support.
… The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies published a briefing paper in 2021 titled Global climate change and trauma that encourages public health, policy, and research actions such as creating a framework to categorize the stressors caused by climate change and developing measures that could be used to assess climate related exposure and traumatic stress impacts. …”