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Interestingly, like most Cult of Climastrology members, Mark Reynolds, group executive director of the Citizens Climate Lobby, fails to push Cultists to give up their own use of fossil fuels and make their lives carbon neutral. He just wants taxes. It’s almost like this is about empowering government

It’s time to act on climate change with a tax on carbon

Those of us who understand the existential threat posed by climate change have been waiting for the “Pearl Harbor moment” that galvanizes people and politicians alike into taking action to minimize that threat. 2018 is turning out to be a “Pearl Harbor year,” where a majority of Americans support taking action, and we’re ready for Congress to press forward.

We thought the wake-up call on climate change occurred in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina slammed and devastated New Orleans, a disaster that left 1,836 people dead and displaced tens of thousands more. Four years later, when legislation to price carbon made a run in Congress, any sense of urgency to deal with climate change was lost amid partisan squabbling and pushback from special interests.

The next opportunity for action came in 2012 when Superstorm Sandy roared up the East Coast with a storm surge that put much of New York City under water. The cover of Bloomberg Businessweek proclaimed, “It’s Global Warming, Stupid.” But again, nothing happened. Likewise, last year’s back-to-back-to-back storms — Harvey, Irma and Maria — left a swath of destruction from Houston to Puerto Rico totaling some $300 billion in damage. This, too, was not enough to spur action. (snip)

The terrifying vortex of fire that swept through Redding, is the latest Pearl Harbor moment for climate change in a year filled with such moments. Let us hope this year of infamy, together with the growing desire for action, will finally set the wheels in motion for Congress to enact meaningful solutions.

This comes via Eric Worrell at Watts Up With That?, who notes

My first thought when I hear about a weather disaster is usually “I hope those people are receiving the help they need”. But perhaps not everyone shares my sense of priorities.

There is that. But, Warmists do not care. They’ll take advantage of every weather event to push their hardcore progressive doctrine, which will do harm to the lower and middle classes. Hundreds of years ago the people “who understand the existential threat” of bad weather blamed witches and the gods. Now they blame trace amounts of carbon dioxide.

Read: Warmist Super Excited To Enact Carbon Tax After “Pearl Harbor” Moments »

Further proof that cults inflict psychological damage to those who are members (first photo from story)

Climate change takes a toll on our minds, too

Psychologist Susie Burke tells the story of a woman who came to her for counselling after having her first child. Not because she was suffering from post-natal depression, but because she was “struggling with the enormity of what she had done.” She felt she had brought her child into a “world she knew was going to be a lot harsher and a lot less safe,” Burke told DW.

“She came to me when she was overwhelmed by this distress; questioning whether she had done the right thing. The fear she had for his future was really huge.”

Burke is an Australian psychologist and academic who specializes in eco-psychology. She treats people suffering mental illness as a result of climate change, and also recently set up a free hotline called the “Climate Change Psychological Support Network,” where Australians can call a qualified psychologist to talk through their feelings about environmental change.

“One of the very first things people need to do to engage properly with climate change is to acknowledge how they feel about it and talk about it,” Burke said.

The first thing they should be counseled to do is to give up fossil fuels, most trappings of 21st Century life, and make their lives carbon neutral while giving the majority of their money, and freedom, to government.

But as the emerging field of eco-psychology is revealing, climate change is taking a significant toll on our mental health too.

“For people who are hearing and paying attention to what is happening to the climate, it is a huge weight and anxiety and fear,” Burke said.

Having worked in the field for the past two decades, the psychologist describes observing people with “anxiety and depression, flat moods, helplessness and hopelessness, and anger,” as well as “guilt and shame.”

She said this latter feeling is common among people who might not have endured direct trauma and loss as a result of climate change, but who experience vicarious distress and are conscious of their part in the problem.

“They’re aware these things are happening and it’s not directly impacting them, but they know it’s going to have a bigger impact on their children in the future or people in other parts of the world.”

The further into the article you get, the nuttier it gets. One last excerpt

But it isn’t only those in the front line of environmental change who experience profound emotional responses and mental health impacts. For many people it is daunting to grasp the full implications of climate change, including coming to terms with their own role in it and how they can help as individuals.

Whether or not people are experiencing or observing firsthand rapid environmental changes, Cunsolo speaks of a “pervasive sense of dread and doom and anxiety.”

These people really are nuts.

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