How climate scientists feel about seeing their dire predictions come true
How climate scientists feel about seeing their dire predictions come true
Wildfires in Canada and Hawaii. Hurricane Hilary set to strike California. Scientists have warned about worse storms and more frequent fires for years.
Imagine spending 40 years telling the world what is going to happen if people don't do something drastic, only to be mocked, paid lip service, and completely ignored. That pretty much says it all.
Cassandra and 12 Monkeys spring to mind.
I want to know how climatologists recommend dealing with depression. I feel like they might have some tips for me.
I want to know how climatologists recommend dealing with depression.
Since I read this more often recently: I don't think the scientists are the right address for that. Scientists expertise is mostly factual, emotionless calculus and number evaluation. Some might deal with the same fears, just hiding them from the public.
Probably a scientist who has also expertise in psychology would do, though.
But ultimately, I think, the fear's and depression's origin comes from the knowledge that the way we live makes the situation only worse. So the only way to get rid of that conflict in the mind would be a meaningful change in the way we live. As that doesn't seem happen, we can only work to deal with the situation.
How can you trust all those scientists? Everyone knows people go into science only for the fame, money and power. We should trust these politicians instead saying everything is actually fine as long as we vote for them!
Soon it will be considered rude to bring up people's climate change denials. They will say its very unfair of you to bring that up.
That's what gets me.
“Climate activism should not be considered an altruistic endeavor. Instead, climate action should be viewed as an act of survival, a necessity.”
This right here. We criminalize and punish people for harming others and even property. It’s time to use this view against climate change by updating and enforcing criminal liability against major actors.
The actions harm other people and the actors do not care because the damage is mostly external. This is exactly what criminal justice systems are there to fix.
https://aussie.zone/post/1152294
Group therapy helps scientists cope with challenging 'climate emotions'
We know collective and individual climate action can alleviate negative climate emotions.
It’s very easy to fall into this vortex, right? Of thinking about climate change as a problem and not just climate change, but global environmental change, ecological loss.
The nature of academia means climate emotions overlap with “Intersectionality” to worsen their experience.
Our findings support the value of group therapy as a cathartic outlet for climate emotions among environmental scientists.
As a result, climate anxiety is likely to become more prolific, perhaps most so in climate scientists.
they feel hot