{"id":269259,"date":"2023-07-25T11:05:10","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T09:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=269259"},"modified":"2023-07-25T11:05:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T09:05:21","slug":"most-people-arent-panicking-because-were-in-a-climate-change-war-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=269259","title":{"rendered":"Most People Aren\u2019t Panicking because We\u2019re in a Climate Change War Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by Eric Worrall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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h\/t\u00a0strativarius<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Apparently we have adapted to the daily horror of the climate crisis, just like people surviving in a war zone get used to all the death and destruction around them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why aren\u2019t we more scared of the climate crisis? It\u2019s complicated<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite extreme heat and weather in the US, most Americans aren\u2019t cowering in fear. There\u2019s a psychological reason for it<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maggie Mertens<\/em>
Sat 22 Jul 2023 23.00 AEST<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

T<\/strong>his summer in the United States, millions of people have experienced the intense effects of the climate crisis. The \u201cheat dome\u201d that has gripped the south-west for the past three weeks is expanding into the south-eastern states. Catastrophic flooding in the\u00a0<\/em>north-east has claimed lives<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>wiped out farmers\u2019 crops<\/a>. And the worst wildfire season in Canadian history has not only caused\u00a0<\/em>tens of thousands of Indigenous people<\/a>\u00a0to be displaced, but the accompanying smoke has also billowed over into the\u00a0<\/em>north-eastern and midwest<\/a>\u00a0US, setting records for poor air quality. In many cases, these events have caused irreparable damage and trauma to those directly affected, and can certainly feel like they\u2019re encroaching on those people on the periphery. And yet despite the fact that we\u2019re living through a climate disaster, most Americans aren\u2019t cowering in fear every day about the future of our planet. There\u2019s a psychological reason for that.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The emotional response to the climate crisis \u2013 even if we feel fearful during an episode of wildfire smoke or flooding \u2013 is similar to what many people who live in war zones may experience, Lickel said. While at first, the threat of bombs and attacks are imminent and extremely frightening, eventually those who remain in these areas adapt somewhat to a life in which the threat becomes just another thing to deal with daily. \u201cIf they\u2019re not escalating or the nature of the threat\u2019s not changing,\u201d Lickel said, \u201cit is to be expected that the felt emotion is going to go down.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, humans tend to adapt to our stressors, which happens in one of two ways, according to Susan Clayton, a psychologist who studies the relationship between humans and nature. When faced with a fear, for instance, Clayton told me that there are two things we can address: the situation or our reaction to the situation. Since the climate crisis is not something we can deal with in the moment, and most people don\u2019t even understand it fully, we often choose to ignore it as a way to protect our emotional selves. \u201cWe\u2019re really, really good at avoiding things that bother us in many cases,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s denial.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Read more:\u00a0https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2023\/jul\/22\/climate-crisis-fear-psychology<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The article goes on to explain if you are feeling the fear, you can mitigate your distress by installing a heat pump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The interesting thing is the article appears to suggest they may have already lost, that no level of climate catastrophe will motivate people to act.\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m skeptical that there is going to be an event that\u2019s going to catalyze us more than any of the things that have already happened,\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If any future historian ever bothers to look back at when the fake climate crisis failed, I think the turning point will be the failed attempt to convince everyone the crisis is upon us. The fake Covid crisis likely also helped weaken trust in authority. A few big forest fires in poorly managed Canadian forests<\/a> and a heatwave in Summer is not a global climate catastrophe, regardless of how much alarmists would like us to believe their hype.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For more background on climate change alarmism click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If any future historian ever bothers to look back at when the fake climate crisis failed, I think the turning point will be the failed attempt to convince everyone the crisis is upon us. The fake Covid crisis likely also helped weaken trust in authority. A few big forest fires in\u00a0poorly managed Canadian forests\u00a0and a heatwave in Summer is not a global climate catastrophe, regardless of how much alarmists would like us to believe their hype.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":269263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818056,691818102,691818272,691821332],"class_list":{"0":"post-269259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-climate-change","9":"tag-climate-crisis","10":"tag-climate-hysteria","11":"tag-fake-covid-crisis","13":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/0climate-war-metaphors.webp?fit=1600%2C900&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-182T","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":292725,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=292725","url_meta":{"origin":269259,"position":0},"title":"Grist: 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