{"id":303837,"date":"2024-02-22T13:34:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T12:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=303837"},"modified":"2024-02-22T13:34:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T12:34:46","slug":"climate-alarmists-like-senator-whitehouse-are-fueling-anxiety-in-young-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=303837","title":{"rendered":"Climate alarmists like Senator Whitehouse are fueling anxiety in young people"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"407\" data-attachment-id=\"303838\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=303838\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/0Final-Sheldon.png?fit=1280%2C720&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,720\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0Final-Sheldon\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/0Final-Sheldon.png?fit=723%2C407&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/0Final-Sheldon.png?resize=723%2C407&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-303838\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/0Final-Sheldon.png?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/0Final-Sheldon.png?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/0Final-Sheldon.png?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/0Final-Sheldon.png?resize=1200%2C675&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/0Final-Sheldon.png?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/2024\/02\/21\/climate-alarmists-like-senator-whitehouse-are-fueling-anxiety-in-young-people\/\">CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Gabriella Hoffman<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn the most critical cases, climate anxiety disrupts the ability to function day to day.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-08-22\/youth-climate-activists-struggle-with-mental-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Children and young people<\/a>&nbsp;in this category feel alienation from friends and family, distress when thinking about the future and intrusive thoughts about who will survive, according to Hickman\u2019s research. Patients obsessively check for extreme weather, read climate change studies, and pursue radical activism. Some, devastatingly, consider suicide as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/00797308.2023.2287381?src=exp-la\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the only solution<\/a>.\u201d \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2024-02-16\/how-therapists-treat-anxiety-stress-over-climate-change?embedded-checkout=true\">Bloomberg Green<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Episode 418 of District of Conservation, Gabriella discusses the NYC City Council mulling a tide pod ban under the guise of curbing microplastic pollution and how climate activists are inducing anxiety in the public. Tune in to learn more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<a class=\"wp-block-jetpack-podcast-player jetpack-podcast-player__direct-link\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasters.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/district-of-conservation\/episodes\/EP-418-NYC-Tide-Pod-Ban--Refuting-Climate-Anxiety-e2g1rmm\/a-ab01dst\">https:\/\/podcasters.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/district-of-conservation\/episodes\/EP-418-NYC-Tide-Pod-Ban&#8211;Refuting-Climate-Anxiety-e2g1rmm\/a-ab01dst<\/a>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>SHOW NOTES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwf.org\/2024\/02\/15\/nyc-villanizes-tide-pods-in-effort-to-combat-microplastics-pollution\/\">\u2060NYC Villanizes Tide Pods In Effort To Combat Microplastics Pollution\u2060<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/legistar.council.nyc.gov\/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=6509337&amp;GUID=914B8D14-7A0C-4E48-B97E-78E129FDECE2&amp;Options=&amp;Search=\">\u2060Pods Are Plastic Bill&nbsp;\u2060<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewtrusts.org\/en\/research-and-analysis\/articles\/2021\/03\/30\/microplastics-are-a-big-and-growing-part-of-global-pollution\">\u2060Microplastics Are a Big\u2014and Growing\u2014Part of Global Pollution\u2060<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2024-02-16\/how-therapists-treat-anxiety-stress-over-climate-change?embedded-checkout=true\">\u2060Climate Change Is Fueling a New Type of Anxiety, Therapists Say\u2060<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC8499625\/\">\u2060NIH: The psychology of climate anxiety\u2060<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenWhitehouse\/status\/1759585681448345819\">\u2060Unhinged Sheldon Whitehouse Tweet<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenWhitehouse\/status\/1759585681448345819\">\u2060<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Episode 418 of District of Conservation, Gabriella discusses the NYC City Council mulling a tide pod ban under the guise of curbing microplastic pollution and how climate activists are inducing anxiety in the public. 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