10 Tips for Helping Climate Karens Overcome Their Anxiety
STUDENTS worried about climate change are being enrolled in special therapy groups at the University of East Anglia in the UK.
According to a BBC report, almost half of all university students worry about climate change “once a week or more”.
They felt “hopeless, angry and depressed”.
The therapy groups are designed to help students overcome despair about climate change.
I’ve not seen the therapy group curriculum, but today offer my own helpful 10 tips for helping Climate Karens overcome their anxiety.
1. Breathe. If you can still do that then the environment is still going. If not, then you are right to worry.
2. Turn off your electricity and gas. Bin your phone. Walk everywhere. Stop ordering takeaway food. Eat only vegan sandwiches. You will soon get over your climate anxiety. I promise.
3. Stop watching the BBC, ABC and MSNBC. Try to find news sources that give all sides of the story. Difficult, but not impossible. Have you subscribed to The James Macpherson Report?
4. Go to the student union bar, have a couple of drinks, and find a girlfriend. She will either remove all your worries, or give you a host of new ones.
5. Worry instead about an actual problem, like World War 3. That blinding flash of light that destroys the world is more likely to come from a Russian missile than from a soccer mum’s gas guzzling SUV.
6. Stop relying on your parents for everything. This will open up a whole new world of worries.
7. Get off social media (Okay, scrap that one. We all know it will never happen)
8. Go to China, the main emitter of emissions, and glue yourself to a road. Whatever happens after that will probably cure your climate anxiety permanently.
9. Stop complaining about climate change. Every time you talk you spew CO2 into the atmosphere. All your whining is actually destroying the planet.
10. Wait 50 years, realise nothing has changed. Then you can feel stupid instead of anxious.
As I said, I’m no mental health expert so I may have missed something.
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We are in a crisis people, so no idea is too stupid …
Remember the climate is not the weather and both are always changing as they have done for thousands of years.
You know all those enormous dinasour bones? How big some of them were? To grow that big the climate must have been wetter, warmer and that carbon in the air was much greater than it is today to grow enough plants to feed then to grow that big and stay alive.
Back about 1972 the scientists wanted vast amounts of money from the Govt to save the Great Barrier Reef which would ALL be dead in 2 or 3 years. They dod not get the money. Today it is still alive, growing well and healthy.
Remember that every one and every big company that is always talking about climate change and disaster is getting money by talking about it.
GOD made the universe, all this world and he made you. He is in control. He cares for it all and you every day. He loves you. He has promised that there will always be a seed time and harvest so you have no need to worry. Get on with doing something useful with the gift of the life he has given you and get to know him and experience his love.
11. Abandon your university studies (why be a bigger part of the ‘problem’ as someone joining the workforce one day?) and go volunteer at a homeless shelter or soup kitchen, to see that maybe there are folk with bigger problems than your imaginary fears.