Web-Based Talk Seeks to Help People with ‘Climate Anxiety’
This is a press release from 350 Humboldt:
Humboldt State University Environmental Studies professor Sarah Ray will talk about her recently published book A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet, on Tuesday, June 2, at 7 p.m. The free event is open to the public and will use the Zoom web application. The event is produced by the local organization 350 Humboldt along with the Climate Action Campaign of the Humboldt Unitarian Universalist Fellowship.
Dr. Ray says that people, especially students, feel increasingly anxious about climate change and its impact on their future. She will describe ways to handle emotional responses to potentially disturbing news. She believes that if people are to make a positive difference in their lives they must avoid becoming overwhelmed by anxiety and fear. She will be available to answer questions.
To register for the event, visit Facebook at www.facebook.com/350humboldt.
Humboldt State University Environmental Studies professor Sarah Ray will talk about her recently published book A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet, on Tuesday, June 2, at 7 p.m. The free event is open to the public and will use the Zoom web application. The event is produced by the local organization 350 Humboldt along with the Climate Action Campaign of the Humboldt Unitarian Universalist Fellowship.
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🕯🌳Is she a poster child or is she actually going to talk science?🐸🌍🖖🇺🇸
It’s something you should be anxious about. People are destroying the planet for profit. If you want to be less anxious, do your part to stop it, so you can know you’re part of the solution instead of the problem.
Our planet Earth has been controlling it’s climate for millions of years without anxiety from anyone.
Find a deserving problem and we’ll help, otherwise you’re making unnecessary noise.
Humans are not the cause of climate change. The sun and other factors are. There have been glaciers and inter glaciers periods for millions of years. Real human activity did not begin until about 40,000 years ago. There have been times when we could only exist on or near the equator, or we would freeze. The children in our freedom schools know there is nothing we can do to have any impact whatsoever on the climate. So they learn to adjust and adapt, and stay in the mountains. But to make you feel better, the container ship burns 7,000 gallons of fuel per hour. When we buy American, we are environmentalists.
The vast majority of competent scientists disagree with you.
Ty stuber
“Preparedness is a state of mind, survival is of the fittest. Mother Nature doesn’t care either way.” (Me)
Rubbish, the only question about climate “change” is when wasn’t it????? By the way, that’s a large component of the Covid “crisis”. “Never let a good crisis go to waste”
Rahm Emanuel (Obama puppet master)
I have actually seen this talk, and while there’s a certain amount of millienial self-help jargon at the outset, when Dr. Ray gets into the substance, it’s very interesting and worthwhile. Her main point is that extreme anxiety such as Bushytails describes, while it may be realistic, actually causes most people to freeze up. Instead of taking action, they feel despair about being able to do anything meaningful, and this leads to the kind of in-control we-know-all-the-secret-conspiracies attitude of Divide by Zero. We need to see this as a challenge that we can rise to, and we need to encourage each other for everything small thing we do. We need to talk about what can be done, even if it’s simple things instead of sitting around bemonaing the evil Powers That Be (which is NOT denial; it’s taking action instead of wallowing) or converting to the reassurance of simple-minded conspiracy theories. And suggesting that Dr. Ray might be a “poster child” — presumably because she’s young and pretty — is just stupid: dude, you’re not going to regain world rule with that attitude; women are too smart.
Willing or not we do something about it with every dollar we spend. Buy local.
Globalism is the tool doing the damage. How we spend our money is the fuel for that tool.
Rover. You are correct.
Fear mongering based on bogus information. There’s more important problems needing our attention.
My Mother’s Father born 1896 told me numerous times … “Yeah, and people in Hell want ice water too.”
Those who talk the loudest about greenhouse gases are no more willing than anyone else to do anything about it other than meaningless symbolic gestures. The “yes but” responses to actually bringing carbon neutral energy on line show that they’re not serious. That’s why we have such silliness as municipalities moving to ban gas heating and stoves. Never mind that the electric alternative relies on natural gas for power generation and gas-to-heat is much more efficient thermally than gas-to-electricity-to-heat.
Either get serious about converting to solar, wind, and nuclear power generation or STFU about global warming.
I have 7kw of solar. I put (a non-trivial amount of) my money where my mouth is.