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Facing extreme heat and drought, young
Californians cope to beat climate anxiety
and doom

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Posted By: NorthernDog, 8/8/2022 9:03:34 AM

When he was 6 years old, Sim Bilal began to have nightmares of floods pouring through his South Los Angeles home. The bad dreams started when he first watched Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth," a seminal documentary about human-driven global warming, with his parents. For years, he struggled with severe anxiety over the fate of the planet. For a time, he would return from school and lie in bed, feeling powerless over the growing climate crisis. "I’m not a very emotional person, but this is such a huge existential issue," said Bilal, 20. "It's really debilitating.” As he learned more

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Just what Democrats want - a frightened, neurotic, mentally-disturbed populace who are more worried about sea levels than the disintegrating society around them.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Axeman 8/8/2022 9:21:39 AM (No. 1241379)
This is my 63rd summer here. The current one is completely average. Nothing at all remarkable. What they are calling a drought is more of a lack of water management skills. Extreme heat is just what happens in summer. It's been about 5-10 degrees low in my community for Aug.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 8/8/2022 9:25:24 AM (No. 1241386)
There are certain lines of thought that are just worthless and cannot be followed. They must be rejected regardless of truth. Climate Change is one of them. The world is doomed? Where does that get you? One word: Madness. It's like the abusive parent that drills into their children that they are useless and will never amount to anything. The last thing the child should ever do is actually believe them. Quite the opposite you need to reject them and get as far away from them as fast as possible.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: JackBurton 8/8/2022 9:26:56 AM (No. 1241387)
People are easier to manipulate when they are angry... ...or scared.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Highlander 8/8/2022 9:37:53 AM (No. 1241404)
Thanks, Man-bear-pig! Just as Dr. Spock influenced parents to raise a generation of entitled spoiled brats, Gore’s propaganda created a generation of Chicken Littles!
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Reply 5 - Posted by: rockeysroomie 8/8/2022 9:44:07 AM (No. 1241416)
Here in California the Delta Smelt has more priority than the Human Being. The Los Angeles Times loves to scare everyone.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Quigley 8/8/2022 9:49:13 AM (No. 1241420)
Here in Texas a perfectly normal summer. The last few have been unusually cool so it is unpleasant to remember what a normal summer feels like. This summer is far less hot than eg 1980 and the 1999 2000 time frame. That’s exactly what they want, #2.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: bad-hair 8/8/2022 10:07:22 AM (No. 1241442)
FTA ... Young people generally feel like adults have left the building on this issue, and are relatively belittled and ignored in terms of the angst that they feel about it,” Wray said. Mommy and Daddy have not fixed my problem !!! This kid will get to be 40 with no adult skills..
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Donna M 8/8/2022 10:12:37 AM (No. 1241449)
What a stupid kid. Likely on meds and welfare. SADS is next for him.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Donna M 8/8/2022 10:14:21 AM (No. 1241453)
California is largely desert. It's reverting to its natural state fast. Only the wealthy and the scavenging poor will be left in a decade.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: earlybird 8/8/2022 10:33:45 AM (No. 1241472)
This is hilarious. Remember Pajama Boy? Just a few more. Scared by Al Gore. Well, Albore scares me too….So what? Didn’t Mommy tell these people that there were scary people in the world. Six year old dreams,, indeed. My intuition tells me they were raised by flaming progressive woke Dems.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: marbles 8/8/2022 10:34:09 AM (No. 1241475)
P.T. Barnum had a genius understanding of human nature.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: cold porridge 8/8/2022 11:16:29 AM (No. 1241522)
These are the same type of idiots that totally believe the fear porn on covid and monkey pox. Al Gore and AOCs of the world have been proven wrong and pushing fear.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: DiegoDude 8/8/2022 11:23:04 AM (No. 1241526)
There's climate change. It's called spring, summer, fall & winter. Depending on where you live, spring & summer can't happen fast enough.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: mc squared 8/8/2022 11:28:44 AM (No. 1241530)
Sim Bilal is neither a critical thinker, nor educated on the subject. That's what the political class strives for.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: DVC 8/8/2022 12:38:35 PM (No. 1241601)
It's AUGUST, and it's a desert. Grow up. It does this nearly every year.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: DVC 8/8/2022 4:38:23 PM (No. 1241865)
Propagandized their whole lives, they believe all the nonsense. How sad to be such a fool.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: broken01 8/10/2022 8:52:26 AM (No. 1243677)
C'mon man Californians you can't be this fragile. I know you have a complete moron as governor with delusions of grandeur at becoming POTUS but trust me this is what happens during the summer. It gets hot.
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