I’d suggest that the best way for Warmists to lift their depression would be to go “carbon neutral”. Give up their fossil fueled vehicles and travel, do away with their refrigerators, their hairspray, their modern lifestyles, and live like it’s 1499
(No Tricks Zone) The strategy of scaring people into action on climate change has backfired totally, so writes Kathrin Burger of the German leftist TAZ daily in a piece titled: Horror Scenarios Promote Depression.
It turns out the alarmists, with all their climate doom and gloom, have only succeeded in spreading depression among themsleves and those around them.
It’s only normal that people who surround themselves with incurable pessimists also eventually become pessimistic themselves, and eventually get depressed or mentally ill. This is what’s happening within the climate movement in Germany, enviro-psychologists say.
It can be convincingly argued that mental illness is indeed a chronic problem among many climate alarmists and their followers. Many are paranoid that a trace gas is causing a climate catastrophe. They even blame bad weather on the Co2 trace gas, with some even going so far as to blame earthquakes and war on the man-made CO2 molecules in the air. Seemingly educated scientists are obsessed with a coming climate catastrophe to the point where they even refuse to believe any data showing to the contrary.
In other words, Warmists are bat-guano insane, and make those around them bat-guano insane, all over a trace low level greenhouse gas. They refuse to acknowledge that their cult is falling apart. From the paper, using Google translation, which is so-so
However, those who still close look at the possible consequences of climate change and peak oil, which runs the risk of becoming depressed, some are already calling it the “Doomer-depression”. This mental disorder results according to the Green Paper of individually perceived feelings of powerlessness.
The article also notes that kids are being put in this condition, thanks to loony parents, schools, and government, all of whom spread the apocalyptic version of “climate change”. 100 years in the future, of course.
Isn’t it strange that the “doom” is always just 100 years in the future. 40 years ago, it was 100 years in the future. In 2013 it’s still 100 years in the future.
Sounds like most of all Democrats to me.
Third hand from one denialist site (Gosselin) to another. I wonder what the original article had to say?
I would think those who care a whit about future generations SHOULD be just a little depressed by what we’re doing (actually, failing to do).
gummy: Your notion is wrong. There is no moment of “doom” but a gradual slide into a world less and less like the one that human civilization grew up in. You think that 10 billion humans can easily adapt to this new world, I’m not so sure.
I guess you missed the part where i excerpted directly for the Google translation of the article, huh?
You can do it to!
And notice how he missed the point of the nay-sayers of DOOM who always move the goal posts further down the field. If the doom were so ever present in their lives, you’d think they would change their own lives first – as teach always points out.
It is now 40 years closer to that 100 year point of doom. And J here thinks its a slide in to doom. Yet, our temps are still nominal and our weather is still pleasant. No continents have crashed or overturned in to the ocean. No species has died because of a warming world.
Gore predicted the world would be on fire in a few more years time.
Some of the “actual” scientists predicted that last summer and this summer would experience either an ice free arctic or winters with no snow. From then on.
So, forgive us J if we just don’t see the “doom” like you do. Granted, we are people who love our freedoms just the way they are. And we don’t need Socialist hypocrits like you telling us to give them up when you refuse to.
If the DOOM is such ever present in the lives of people like you J, then how come you don’t fully fund these anti-warming programs with your people’s own funds? You should be doing all YOU can to give the gov’t your money. If you believe in those programs and your gov’t so much, that is.
gummybear,
It’s not my problem that you refuse to understand what I wrote as I can’t make it any simpler.
I probably pay more in federal taxes than you make in a year, and I never whine about being Taxed Enough Already.
Once again Jeffy demonstrates how hypocritical, stupid, ignorant (or all three) he is.
First he says the Gumballs refuses to understand what he wrote.
But what Gumball wrote includes this:
Jeffy responds with:
Jeffy has problems understanding that taxes he pays are not the same as a gift. He believes that money taken at the point of the government sword is the same thing as gift to the government. Perhaps Jeffy doesn’t know that you can gift money to the government, but maybe not.
No matter what, you see another example that Jeffy doesn’t comprehend anything that is beyond the 2nd grade level.
We see another example of his hypocrisy in that he always demands higher taxes but won’t give of his own.
Typical leftist who won’t do what he demands others do.
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And J goes down in painful flames.
Another one bites the dust.
gumby and gidiot,
So it’s your contention that American citizens should only voluntarily pay for the government activities they support. In that case, conservative voters owe the rest of America about $3 trillion for the invasion of Iraq. You can settle up with the families of the kids your war killed as you best see fit.
Not at all and that was not what was said by anyone in this thread other than you.
Once again, we see how basic comprehension eludes you.
But may I suggest that you get professional help for not only your other delusions, but the BDS you suffer from as well?