Editors and news producers make decisions every day about which articles, editorials, and essays to publish. Is it newsworthy? Is it interesting? Is the author credible? Is there an alternative piece that readers will find more engaging and truthful? The writer was able to get his essay placed - on someone else's substack blog. Isn't this validation enough of its worthiness?
If heat waves were as deadly as the media says they are, people could not have survived thousands of years without air conditioning. Homo sapiens are resilient. We adapt to changing conditions. In the past, heat waves were treated as a normal part of summer. Now we are barraged with heat warnings
and climate hypochondriacs who are telling the young people that they are doomed. Call it what you will - eco-anxiety, solastalgia, eco grief - if you are engaged in alarmism, you're probably just getting the young people to redirect their negative emotions toward something that can't really be accurately measured or changed - the changing climate. Climate has always been cyclical, and always will be.
Attributing every feeling of sadness or guilt to a so-called doomed climate or a doomed Earth makes people climate hypochondriacs - and they will only get worse with time - possibly resulting in mental
conditions worthy of the DSM-5.
Let's realize please that hot weather in summer is not aberrant, that it is normal to sometimes feel
sad, that a doctor can write a heartfelt, well-written essay expressing his true feelings and anxieties
and experience rejection of that essay, and that life goes on.
"... do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble." Matthew, last line of chapter 6.
Is this how you respond to the families and friends of those who have died on the front lines fighting forest fires in Canada? Is this your response to the family and friends of those individuals who perished in Nova Scotia due to the recent flooding? Is this your response to farmers in many counties in southern Alberta where agricultural disasters have been declared? Is this your response to those suffering around the globe as a result of severe drought, intense storms and unprecedented heat waves? Life is NOT going on for many.
Completely agree that people are afraid to deeply feel their emotions and that we need to do the hard things. I’ve written about how the embodiment practice of Focusing, created by philosopher Eugene Gendlin, is a way to develop the skills to feel safely, so that we can process the emotions of the catastrophe that is the climate crisis. It can also help us find our “just right next step”, our personal climate action, including to be in community to do so. https://pupa.ca/blog/welcoming-catastrophic-thinking-for-climate-action
Excellent Article. He speaks the truth!
Editors and news producers make decisions every day about which articles, editorials, and essays to publish. Is it newsworthy? Is it interesting? Is the author credible? Is there an alternative piece that readers will find more engaging and truthful? The writer was able to get his essay placed - on someone else's substack blog. Isn't this validation enough of its worthiness?
If heat waves were as deadly as the media says they are, people could not have survived thousands of years without air conditioning. Homo sapiens are resilient. We adapt to changing conditions. In the past, heat waves were treated as a normal part of summer. Now we are barraged with heat warnings
and climate hypochondriacs who are telling the young people that they are doomed. Call it what you will - eco-anxiety, solastalgia, eco grief - if you are engaged in alarmism, you're probably just getting the young people to redirect their negative emotions toward something that can't really be accurately measured or changed - the changing climate. Climate has always been cyclical, and always will be.
Attributing every feeling of sadness or guilt to a so-called doomed climate or a doomed Earth makes people climate hypochondriacs - and they will only get worse with time - possibly resulting in mental
conditions worthy of the DSM-5.
Let's realize please that hot weather in summer is not aberrant, that it is normal to sometimes feel
sad, that a doctor can write a heartfelt, well-written essay expressing his true feelings and anxieties
and experience rejection of that essay, and that life goes on.
"... do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble." Matthew, last line of chapter 6.
Is this how you respond to the families and friends of those who have died on the front lines fighting forest fires in Canada? Is this your response to the family and friends of those individuals who perished in Nova Scotia due to the recent flooding? Is this your response to farmers in many counties in southern Alberta where agricultural disasters have been declared? Is this your response to those suffering around the globe as a result of severe drought, intense storms and unprecedented heat waves? Life is NOT going on for many.
His response is a sort of incoherent hooting, I suspect, as his last dying brain cells desperately try to convey the distress at their tragic fate.
Citations needed. Yet another "I'm the voice of reason" rant bolstered by just so stories and flagrant whataboutism. Go away petrotroll.
Imagine being so impossibly dim that you actually say "climate can't be measured".
Jesus fucking Christ. Walk into the sea, keep walking, and don't stop.
this speaking out is really important: we need to take action now
Completely agree that people are afraid to deeply feel their emotions and that we need to do the hard things. I’ve written about how the embodiment practice of Focusing, created by philosopher Eugene Gendlin, is a way to develop the skills to feel safely, so that we can process the emotions of the catastrophe that is the climate crisis. It can also help us find our “just right next step”, our personal climate action, including to be in community to do so. https://pupa.ca/blog/welcoming-catastrophic-thinking-for-climate-action