The study, published Tuesday in Nature Mental Health, randomly surveyed more than 2,400 Canadians aged 13 or older and categorized them using a climate change anxiety scale developed in the U.S. It asks the extent to which people agree with statements such as “Thinking about climate change makes it difficult for me to sleep” or “I find myself crying because of climate change.”
It found that 90 per cent of respondents were concerned about climate change and 68 per cent felt some level of anxiety — something the researchers thought was a normal, healthy response, given the impacts of climate change such as wildfires and extreme heat.
But 2.35 per cent had “clinically relevant” symptoms.
Past anxiety. Don’t expect to have a world to retire in
“I found myself crying because of climate change” sounds a touch dramatic, until you tack on “because people I know had to flee their homes and lost everything in a forest fire, and my child with asthma couldn’t play outside most of the summer because of smoke, and we were just told by our insurance company that they won’t insure our home anymore because our area is too high risk now” and so on.
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Last winter had “a lot” of snow. But seeing it piled up looked no different than what we got every year ~20 years ago.
Are you seriously suggesting that climate change is overblown because you, personally, saw snow last year?
No, I’m saying we’re seeing less snow because of warmer temperatures.
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I would say more snow at one time but you have warm days either way. If it’s warm enough to snow you will accumulate more than if it’s warm enough to melt.
The greatest change everyone should expect to see in the coming decades from climate change is … mass migration.
As soon as the heat, flooding, hurricanes in the southern United States get worse, all those people are moving north, first to the northern states and then to Canada. As soon as forest fires get worse and destroy more land and communities, people like me in rural northern Ontario will migrate to cities and towns and to southern Ontario.
If conservatives think immigration is bad now, the future is going to have millions of people moving to places they don’t want to go to to be greeted by people who don’t want them there.
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Migration, hyperinflation and general market disruptions and CONFLICT. When harvests get whacked by flood, heat, droughts, you are going to see food get scarce and skyrocket so high and so fast that nobody alive today will have seen the likes of it.
What happens to markets when there is not enough to go around? First we ration by price, then we ration with violence. Everybody paying attention knows this and has been planning for it.
A perennial favourite a lecture at UBC from Gwynn Dyer, PhD Military Historian, author and journalist promoting his book on the Geopolitics of Climate Change. If you’re not anxious, you’re not understanding the severity of the situation we are in. Ignorance isn’t a valid defence against climate change.
Canadian media always puts a dull face on the danger we are in and loves to put shiny hope on anything it can gets its hands on. They don’t want to yell fire in a crowded theatre and cause a panic so everyone sat in the theatre as it burns down around and on them and they never left their seats. As our cities choke on the smoke of the burning boreal forests, the public wonders what will save them.
“Who will save us?” the public screamed as everything they took for granted changed severely and dramatically for the worse.
The scientists replied “It’s too late for that, now. We told you how to save yourselves 40 years ago and you didn’t bother. Enjoy the shitshow, or don’t, whatever”.
Migration will cause war and political extremism will skyrocket. Certainty won’t decrease during the next few hundred years and Canada will get invaded is my bet. It’ll be an awful time and most of you will still have children.
The working class is the class most likely to be negatively impacted or even die from climate change.
The working class is the class that has the least ability to make any effective changes to combat climate change.
In fact, many of the “actions” we are encouraged to do are explicit greenwashing and attempts by the Parasite Class to shift the burden of responsibility off of them (where almost all culpability originate from) and onto the working class (who cannot do anything about it).
So yeah, is it really surprising that anxiety is sky-high when the consequences are so severe but the primary instigators and generators are simultaneously blaming those who can do nothing about it and taking any legitimate powers away from us?
It found that 90 per cent of respondents were concerned about climate change
And the rest have their fingers stuck in their ears chanting “lalalala”
Well, I won’t get anxious because DS and the dictators are blowing their fossil emissions at me. It’s totally on them.
Hand over the bill to Danielle Smith.
You’d have to be stupid not to, a lot.of tuoid people out there though and ironically it’s why weirw in this mess, as this poll indicates (why not 99%)
You just roll with it, same as you do with “anxiety” about your own mortality…
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/06/14/opinion/science-civilization-collapse-environment-limits
Rees bluntly states, “the human enterprise is effectively subsuming the ecosphere” and “wide-spread societal collapse cannot be averted — collapse is not a problem to be solved, but rather the final stage of a cycle to be endured.”
I was told AI would solve it. This is giving me anxiety. I’m gonna go watch some presentation by Sam Altman.
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Solid post. Bill Rees is the man.
