{"id":374305,"date":"2025-04-09T09:19:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T07:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=374305"},"modified":"2025-04-09T09:19:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T07:19:04","slug":"liberals-may-be-suffering-from-climate-anxiety-but-if-so-its-the-medias-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=374305","title":{"rendered":"Liberals May Be Suffering from Climate Anxiety, but if So, It\u2019s The Media\u2019s Fault"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From ClimateRealism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Linnea Lueken<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A recent article at the Washington Free Beacon<\/em>, titled \u201cGreat News for Humanity: Depressed Liberals Are Increasingly Suicidal Due to \u2018Climate Anxiety,\u2019 Study Finds<\/a>,\u201d takes a humorous approach (black humor, to be sure) to discussing a study that found liberals are increasingly suffering from climate anxiety and depression, leading the climate-anxious to refrain from having children and even contemplating and, in some cases, committing suicide. The article makes light of it, but it is a widely reported trend. Since climate change does not threaten human existence or flourishing, and extreme weather is not worsening, their fears and anxiety are unjustified by the actual state of the climate. Unfortunately, climate alarm has been foisted upon people, especially on children and mentally unwell adults, despite evidence indicating climate change is not anything to be alarmed about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Washington Free Beacon<\/em> reports:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNegative psychological responses related to the observed and anticipated impacts of climate change, such as climate anxiety, eco-anxiety and climate-related guilt have \u2026 emerged as a potential risk factor for poor mental health and suicide-related behaviors,\u201d the authors wrote<\/a> last month in Nature Medicine<\/em>. \u201cInternational surveys show that concern about climate change is associated with feelings of despair, hopelessness, anger, frustration and guilt, especially among younger populations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The findings of this study, published in Nature<\/em>, are not unique. Other research has come to similar conclusions: a study conducted by Save the Children found that 70 percent of kids they surveyed struggle with what they dubbed \u201cclimate anxiety,\u201d as discussed in this<\/a> Climate Realism<\/em> post. Other surveys show similarly sad results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each time these results are presented, the media and the researchers involved frame the story as climate change and its impacts are causing fear and anxiety, and the lack of action is causing deep feelings of hopelessness and despair for people worried about climate change. Yet it is the false tales that the media, politicians, and green interest groups are telling about climate change motivating anxiety and mental distress, not the actual conditions of the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For instance, in the media coverage of the Save the Children survey, the UK website Future Net Zero implies that without immediate societal scale action, the present generation of children \u201cstand to inherit a deeply unequal world,\u201d and that their terror is \u201cwarranted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Likewise<\/a>, articles from The Hill<\/em> and The Conversation discussing a study attributing adult PTSD to climate change assert that climate change is impacting people through increased wildfires and other disasters. This is false, the framing of their research is built on falsehoods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate change is not causing worsening weather disasters. Data show that not only are events like wildfires<\/a> not increasing, but the number of all climate-related deaths are declining because of improvements to infrastructure, healthcare, technology, and yes, better climatic conditions. (See figure below)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The real reason so many impressionable people are depressed and anxious about climate change is because the media and governments relentlessly push and promote false and alarming misinformation and fake news about extreme weather and climate change. It is no wonder that children are afraid, when their teachers are telling them that the world will end in short order unless dramatic global reforms are made. When people don\u2019t see the supposedly climate saving reforms being made, they are left hopeless and despondent. But it is an unnecessary misery \u2013 there has never been a safer time period for humans to live in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Washington Free Beacon<\/em> made light of the situation, but it is no laughing matter. Children in particular are being traumatized by adults in their lives over the climate issue. Climate change is not harming mental health, but climate alarmism, built on falsehoods, hysteria, and hyperbole, certainly is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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