{"id":375542,"date":"2025-04-18T11:32:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T09:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=375542"},"modified":"2025-04-18T11:32:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T09:32:20","slug":"in-crash-test-dummy-land-we-solve-teenage-girl-climate-anxiety-with-500b-in-fantasy-weather-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=375542","title":{"rendered":"In crash-test dummy land, we solve teenage girl climate anxiety with $500b in fantasy weather experiments\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From JoNova<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Jo Nova<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And so, we arrive, a nation of people looking at TikTok as they cruise down the freeway<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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This week, our national energy policy is an Agony-Aunt letter \u2014 poor Alexa, 21, has been suffering from \u2018climate anxiety\u2019 since she was 15. Instead of asking her grandparents (who don\u2019t rate a mention) she dreams of telling her grandkids that she did \u201ceverything she could\u201d. Everything, that is, except for talking to her own grandparents, listening to climate skeptics, or seeking alternative views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of doing her homework, she gate-crashed the PMs promo event so she could be used as emotional bait in a battle between the deep-state-banker-blob and the workers. She probably thinks she\u2019s on the side of the workers (though she\u2019s also probably never met one).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Channel Nine reports on her mental health disorder in the middle of an election campaign, not to help her heal, but to exploit her to push for the climate policies, and political winners that Nine shareholders probably want. See their first line. It\u2019s not \u201cnews\u201d, it\u2019s political advertising.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Alexa, 21, has been suffering from \u2018climate anxiety\u2019 since she was a teenager. She\u2019s not alone<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Young voters are forming a rallying cry for the federal government to address one of their greatest concerns: climate change<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alexa Stuart, 21, has already spent years of her life anxious about the climate.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other words, (twist-the-knife) \u2014 to solve her mental illness, we should turn our electrical network into a weather modification scheme at a cost of hundreds of billions, right? (Either that, or we could send her to a pub for fish and chips with a few climate skeptics. It\u2019s so much cheaper.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No country on Earth has made its own climate nicer with solar panels, or cricket burgers, and most of them are not even trying, but we should, they imply, because only horrible people would not be touched by her sad story. And after all, electricity runs on hope, faith and diversity, not on three phase power. If we follow the fantasy here \u2014 coal power causes heart palpitations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Agony Aunt, (April Glover) digs deep for science, and finds psychological coleslaw instead:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

One in 10 Australian adults is experiencing \u201csignificant eco-anxiety\u201d<\/strong> like Stuart is, said the Black Dog Institute\u2019s Chloe Watfern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 80 per cent of 16 to 25-year-olds are worried about climate change, according to research published in The Lancet.
Watfern said this currently undiagnosed<\/strong> feeling can be akin to \u201cthe feeling of homesickness that you have when you\u2019re home\u201d or even pre-traumatic stress.<\/strong>
It can also be known as \u201cecological grief\u201d<\/strong>, which is \u201ca sense of mourning for ecosystems, biodiversity and species lost to environmental damage\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So 10% of Australian adults have a mental illness that has three different names and is \u201ccurrently undiagnosed\u201d? It\u2019s like pre-traumatic stress, she says, which is the trauma you get from events that haven\u2019t happened, right? Just call it paranoid fantasies, OK?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Alexa is stressed, it\u2019s because she had a terrible education and grew up in a journalistic wasteland. Articles like this in Nine Media exploit vulnerable teenagers to scare money and votes out of nice people and feed that money to institutional banker funds. Speaking of which\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Channel Nine\u2019s major shareholders are institutional banker funds:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

What a surprise. As MarketScreener t<\/a>ells us, the major shareholders of Nine Entertainment are largely large index funds which invest in renewable energy and even if they don\u2019t, they all prefer the kinds of governments that waste lots of money, write sloppy massive legislation full of loopholes, support glorious subsidy schemes, and pointless boom and bust cycles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Major shareholders: Nine Entertainment Co. Holdings Limited<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Name<\/th>Equities<\/th>%<\/th>Valuation<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Birketu Pty Ltd.<\/td>238,260,442<\/td>15.02 %<\/td>223 M $<\/td><\/tr>
Macquarie Bank Ltd. (Private Banking)<\/td>145,524,938<\/td>9.177 %<\/td>136 M $<\/td><\/tr>
Perpetual Investment Management Ltd.<\/td>139,953,811<\/td>8.826 %<\/td>131 M $<\/td><\/tr>
Australian Retirement Trust Pty Ltd.<\/td>79,129,530<\/td>4.99 %<\/td>74 M $<\/td><\/tr>
FIL Investment Management (Singapore) Ltd.<\/td>72,527,964<\/td>4.574 %<\/td>68 M $<\/td><\/tr>
Macquarie Investment Management Global Ltd.<\/td>14,605,831<\/td>0.9211 %<\/td>14 M $<\/td><\/tr>
Investors Mutual Ltd.<\/td>10,325,056<\/td>0.6511 %<\/td>10 M $<\/td><\/tr>
BetaShares Capital Ltd.<\/td>9,092,133<\/td>0.5734 %<\/td>9 M $<\/td><\/tr>
State Street Global Advisors Trust Co.<\/td>8,939,320<\/td>0.5637 %<\/td>8 M $<\/td><\/tr>
Netwealth Investments Ltd.<\/td>8,383,182<\/td>0.5287 %<\/td>8 M $<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Nine  Entertainment pushes these cloying stories as a way to keep both sides of the Uniparty in line. They win either way. Even if the Big Green Labor Party doesn\u2019t win, the Opposition candidates know what policies the media giants want, and are, for the most part, cowed into timid submission. Only Trump, who called them the Fake News Media, has used their terrible reporting against them, and outflanked them with social media. The people hate being lied to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any real opposition must turn the tables on the crooked media, in the politest possible way, and ask the questions that the fake journalists won\u2019t ask. Say, do your shareholders benefit if you exaggerate climate change?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mental illness is very serious. Should we treat it with national energy policy?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This week, our national energy policy is an Agony-Aunt letter \u2014 poor Alexa, 21, has been suffering from \u2018climate anxiety\u2019 since she was 15. Instead of asking her grandparents (who don\u2019t rate a mention) she dreams of telling her grandkids that she did \u201ceverything she could\u201d. 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