Young Minnesotans with ‘climate grief’ are feeling anxiety—and taking action
Star Tribune [Minneapolis, MN],
by
Kevyn Burger
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
4/22/2019 8:00:26 PM
Helen Meigs thinks about climate change. A lot. “It’s always in the back of my mind,” said the Macalester College sophomore. Concern about climate change isn’t rare on campus. In fact, she’s convinced it’s widespread. “My whole generation wonders if we’re getting cheated out of a full future, and we can’t put it out of our minds,” she said. “It’s an anxiety-inducing situation.” That anxiety has a name: climate grief. In 2017, the American Psychological Association recognized the complex mental health burden in people who have experienced losses from natural disasters associated with climate change. It also found evidence that
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Locarno 4/22/2019 8:05:51 PM (No. 42229)
I can remember this exact same argument in the 1980´s with nuclear disarmament. Everyone was afraid we were going to get nuked and our little campus was the ground zero for the world. Guess what? We all survived. Now, we have a new boogey Man in ´climate change´. After we all survive that, the snowflakes will find something else to protest and anxiety about.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
SALady 4/22/2019 8:07:45 PM (No. 42241)
If these snowflakes control our future, we are doomed!!!
Their idiocy is going to destroy this world, not the climate!!!!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
red1066 4/22/2019 8:14:25 PM (No. 42230)
Is it the cold air, or are the people of Minnesota just generally stupid? Between the people they send to Washington, and now the climate BS, one has to wonder if walking and crewing gum at the same time is beyond their IQ level.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
weirdone 4/22/2019 8:14:28 PM (No. 42248)
How many hoaxes and lies are liberals willing to swallow before they choke on their own pure unadulterated BS? All of the following have been supported and promoted by the "Liberal Press."
Nuclear winter, Peak oil, acid rain, the ozone hole, Mayan Dooms Day calendar, Clarence Thomas, Anita Hill, pubic hair on Coke can, Tawana Brawley, Duke lacrosse players Hoax, Hands up don´t shoot, Trayvon Martin, Brett Kavanaugh a rapist, Covington Catholic High School drummer, Jussie Smollett´s hate crime, Russian collusion, global warming/climate change, (AOC said that she fears "the world is going to end in 12 years if we don´t address climate change).
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
WhatMediaBias 4/22/2019 8:15:48 PM (No. 42246)
That anxiety has a name: Stupidity
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Nevadadad46 4/22/2019 8:22:15 PM (No. 42250)
And this is what years of fake science and teachers brainwashing little kids - now those kids are graduating and they are actually suffering a psychosis which will last their entire lifetime. So, now the face scientists have a new money-making scheme; it is called CAS "Climate Anxiety Syndrome" and for a few hundred thousand bucks per patient the government will pay to treat them.
These kids feel like their world is going to end any day now...their futures are destroyed, so why study, why try to make a life...drugs- take drugs. That´s the answer.
Thanks you GD leftist idiots!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
leonardo 4/22/2019 8:23:57 PM (No. 42222)
Could it be that the folks who brought us Omar, Franken and Ventura have a whole lot more too worry about than
climate anxiety? It is said that the world´s average IQ is 82 ... you can be sure that Minnesota is partly responsible for that sub 100 global skew.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
liberty316 4/22/2019 8:28:45 PM (No. 42234)
Pay federal income taxes then tell my how it feels to be cheated out of a full future...
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
pinger 4/22/2019 8:35:43 PM (No. 42227)
I recently read an article that if the land mass of the U.S., all of its 3.8 million square miles, were totally forested and had no human inhabitants, the world temperature would drop one tenth of one degree centigrade by the year 2100. So with these folks desire to see America slit its own throat and throw us back into the dark ages...while the real polluters of the world--China and India--sit on their hands, shows an ignorant head-in-the-sand approach to a "problem" (sic) that America can not begin to solve. Put in a shorter way, these students have been listening to the BS of their lefty profs.
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When they wake up at 50 and NOTHING is different in the environment, sea levels the same, hurricanes the same, tornadoes the same, forrest fires the same, flooding the same, there are going to be a LOT of conversions to the GOP.
Sad to see so many kids brainwashed into fear by the left. Truly evil.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
belwhatter 4/22/2019 8:51:03 PM (No. 42221)
They have no faith, they do not know how to trust in God, what miserable lives their closed minds have brought them!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bad-hair 4/22/2019 8:54:52 PM (No. 42240)
This is media, media, media. TV media, social media, moreandmoreandmore social media. Climate grief is singularly due to media telling these people WHAT to think, and even that is too hard for them. This is because nobody, least of all their teachers, has taught them HOW to think. That comes from their parents, their music teachers, their sports coaches, their churches (we hope) and their natural curiosity. These children are still out there and I wish them luck.
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Why are they going to college for 4 plus years if they think they only have 11.5 left? Enjoy your life now.
Of course, my grandparents thought the world would end during WWI, my parents WWII, my childhood i hid under a school desk because we were going to be killed by an atom bomb, my husband lived thru Vietnam and my son was an infant when Three Mile Iskand almost blew but you never know, the ocean may rise an inch or so.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/22/2019 9:10:06 PM (No. 42232)
My first thought was "brainwashed" but that would require a brain...
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
chance_232 4/22/2019 9:19:50 PM (No. 42239)
First we had global cooling
Nuclear winter
Oil running out any day
Over population
Global Warming
and now....DaDaDAAAAA!!!! Climate Change!!!!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
rochow 4/22/2019 9:26:58 PM (No. 42238)
Good grief! What a sicko! Trash like that is going to college??? Majoring in basket weaving and climate change???
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Luandir 4/22/2019 9:34:37 PM (No. 42254)
Poor babies. Mommy and Daddy are to embarrassed to admit that in their college days, they fell for the "nuclear winter" hysteria peddled by the same leftist groups. Then that mean Mr. Reagan ended the Cold War and your parents had a future, to graduate, get jobs, and have you.
You´re more likely to see a full-blown Ice Age than Mr. Gore´s fantasy come true.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Corndoggies 4/22/2019 9:40:44 PM (No. 42224)
I remember going to my Grandma as a little girl with a concern and she hugged me and said “Worryin ain’t gonna change a thing”. I sure miss her.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
NYbob 4/22/2019 9:50:31 PM (No. 42231)
The brainwashed, emotional basketcase majors in International studies and she doesn´t understand China, India, and Africa are the problem? Good thing progressive tyrants are ´mobilizing´ high school kids and the dumber college kids, while their parents watch TV or something.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Shmowry1 4/22/2019 9:51:10 PM (No. 42236)
Such gloom and doom from the most coddled, wealthy, and spoiled generation in the history of humanity.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 4/22/2019 9:52:46 PM (No. 42255)
We saw a documentary about Jim Jones over the weekend. It´s no accident that he focused on political liberals to build his cult. They are eager to drink the Kool-Aide.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
coldoc 4/22/2019 10:04:09 PM (No. 42253)
Sorry #4. Look at us in AZ and the morons we elect. The heat doesnt help.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
web 4/22/2019 10:11:29 PM (No. 42228)
When the older generation was in school, it was always the threat of nuclear war. The solution was to cower under our desks. I never thought about it much, because the Russians were not really crazy enough to cause Mutually Assured Destruction and destroy us both.
The kids today are being bombarded by constant refrains of climate change, racism, envy, hatred of anyone who does not accept the progressive agenda, and how terrible Western Civilization and their own country has been, with no discussion of the positive contributions that have been made.
They are subjected to that steady stream of bleak scientific studies and reports of melting glaciers, rising seas and extreme weather events, but I doubt they read anything that refutes the climate change lies. That would go against their progressive world view.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
ZeldaFitzg 4/22/2019 10:13:45 PM (No. 42249)
And some generations had fears that were real: the Black Death, cholera, Indian attacks, religious pogroms, Viking raids, roaming Cossacks, childhdod fever, tenement fires, and so forth.
Get a grip. Grow up. Life doesn´t provide "safe space."
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
ZeldaFitzg 4/22/2019 10:16:30 PM (No. 42226)
Oops---that should read "childbed fever."
I hate auto-correct.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
TexasCunning 4/22/2019 10:17:10 PM (No. 42220)
What I want to know is why someone from Minnesota of all places would care if it gets warmer. Wouldn´t that be a plus?
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
panther361 4/22/2019 11:00:08 PM (No. 42244)
Do us a favor, let us all know when figure out how to stop or even alter the cycles that have taking place on this planet since the dawn of time.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Shells 4/23/2019 12:01:08 AM (No. 42243)
These kids lives have been too easy.
Toughen up, losers.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 4/23/2019 12:09:46 AM (No. 42247)
If they don´t grow up and open their eyes they will be cheated out a full future and they will be the sole cause of it.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 4/23/2019 12:44:59 AM (No. 42235)
If they are getting cheated out of anything, it is honesty and factual information from responsible adults. Parents really need to stop donations to these institutions. Cut off the money and start showing your anger at them finally. Your kids are being lied to, and you are footing the bill for it. That is lunacy.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
DVC 4/23/2019 2:21:10 AM (No. 42242)
Fools, being fooled. Sad to be that ignorant, disinformed, uninformed and misinformed.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
NotaBene 4/23/2019 4:31:19 AM (No. 42245)
Relax Minnesota, the climate is getting Global Cooling because of too few solar spots. Crops are growing great because of that guaranteed fertilizer, atmospheric CO2. The future looks so bright that Cultural Marxists will have to wear Trump shades or at least MAGA caps.
I will vote Trump2020. All he had to,do,for me was taking US out of that Paris Climate Change Agreement the Vatican pushed in the terrible Laudato Sií screed.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Trigger2 4/23/2019 5:26:40 AM (No. 42237)
There you have it! The APA has designated these morons as having mental disease.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
rusino 4/23/2019 9:43:02 AM (No. 42233)
Our young people are served a constant diet of Climate Lies! In the 60’s we were told that in 1985 we would be wearing Gas Masks and only half the Sunlight would make it through the polluted atmosphere! Then there was the dooms day call of a New Ice Age! etc!
Follow the Money and the Road to Power!...over the people!
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
jacksin5 4/23/2019 10:54:08 AM (No. 42223)
Every day is a gift granted by our Creator. Make the most of each day and stop worrying about things over which you have no control.
There are huge rocks spinning around the Universe with Earth´s name on the.
Me, I´m going fishing.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
skacmar 4/23/2019 12:24:28 PM (No. 42256)
These little whiney babies are in for a big surprise when they graduate and try to get jobs in big evil corporations who expect them to work and won´t put up with this BS. Of course, it seems like most of the current crop of snowflakes are growing up to be social warriors, social workers, or community organizers and will never have a productive job or produce anything because they are too afraid of harming or offending someone/something (which would make them feel bad in their safe space).
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Won´t someone help these melting snowflakes? as Dr. Savage put it, "Liberalism is a mental disorder," confirmed here by the APA.