Got Climate Anxiety? You’re not alone.

[@Dollightful]

Gosh, there's a term for it? I have worried about the planet's future since I was a little girl. I have taken steps to negate my own footprint (going vegetarian, avoiding single-use-plastics, buying only locally produced items, etc), but it sure can feel hopeless at times. At least there is some comfort in knowing many people feel the same way. Time to learn potato farming!!

[@Watch-0w1]

But y u feel like this ? Did climate change affect u significant to give you worry? Just remember you never were alone. We died together afterwards

[@ellanimation816]

@@Watch-0w1I’ve seen my skies turn mars orange and the air become toxic

[@Watch-0w1]

@@ellanimation816 where? In Canada ? California?

[@ricktd6891]

Stop worrying about the climate and start worrying about the climate scam. None of what they told you is true. CO2 doesn't control the temperature of Earth and the Earth isn't historically hot right now, it's historically cold deep within a giant ice age. Look for yourself. Search : "Global temperature and atmospheric CO2 over geologic time/graph/images."

[@ricktd6891]

@@ellanimation816 If you see it, that's not CO2, unless it's dry ice. CO2 in gas form is invisible. P.S. global warming is a good thing... and it's not happening anyway. Go check the satellite feeds. Temps fell since 2016. The CO2 global warming hypothesis failed.

[@JackBlack-ml4qw]

I've had severe climate anxiety since my child was born. It's difficult for me to enjoy the things I used to since I know I'm destroying the planet when doing those activities (flying, eating meat, unnecessary driving to name a few). My wife doesn't want to change her lifestyle and she is annoyed I want to change mine. My parents think it will cause the apocalypse, but they're not doing anything to change either. I drink too much and eat way too many edibles just to relax. I'm on antidepressants just to get sleep. I've taken many steps and spent alot if money to reduce my personal footprint, but still I don't feel better. Climate anxiety is a major problem that's growing fast.

[@prometheus5700]

Seek help. That's no way to live.

[@ernestchadwell9069]

Lol. 🐑

[@sierrah5928]

Don’t let these comments get you down, we can’t help too much feeling anxiety towards such a big pronlem. I’ve personally seen and heard about how much the average temperatures have changed in my area. Relatively stable timing of when the ice melts, or when it gets thick enough to go on. How many bugs come out, when certain animals, how much snow, the heat of the summers has all changed even within my lifetime and becomes larger when I see how for my mothers and grandparents lifetime how much it’s changed. It makes me sad honestly and I also feel that anxiety. I’ve always been thinking about the earth and what can I do for it also since I was a child. So I’m there with you, I’m not quite as anxious as you are and I wish you all the best in alleviating it so you can live a more peaceful life.

[@liondancebird5246]

Thank you on behalf of everyone and everything on this earth for doing the right thing and taking corrective action. You're a leader whether you think of yourself this way or not. I hope that the example you set will inspire others around you.

[@victoriaconde5786]

I am glad someone is speaking about it. I have OCD and i was latched onto other themes before and i was almost done with it. Climate change has worried me since i was 11, I am 21 now and i can barely talk about it with my parents. I just can’t do anything, i’ve been raised in a very consumist family, and i struggle a lot to give up this addiction. Also I live in Argentina, in a city and in a building, so i can rarely do something like cultivating anything. Besides my country is going through a terrible economic crisis so governments don’t have climate emergency in their agenda. I just feel hopeless, i can’t se a future and i feel alone because no one that I love is nearly commited to this as i am. I just enjoy so much going out with friends, ordering food, receiving presents, i was raised like that and world is no longer compatible with that. I’m grieving all my goals, my future. I left a university career last year and decided to study graphic design, which is no helpful to climate change just because is a consumist discipline. I love branding design and i can see that i will never be able to do that for a living. I feel completely useless and I can’t see my purpose in this short lived planet.

[@ricktd6891]

It's a scam. Scroll up for facts.

[@ricktd6891]

I'm sorry, you were lied to. The Earth is historically cold right now, not historically hot. Search : "Global temperature and atmospheric CO2 over geologic time/graph/images."

[@JackBlack-ml4qw]

You should pursue a career in climate. You can make a difference. I believe in you.

[@ricktd6891]

@@JackBlack-ml4qw Thanks but I have a job. I debunk the CAGW scam to save lives for free in my spare time.

[@liondancebird5246]

I bet that you can find ways to use your art and branding skills to support environmental or social action groups in Argentina, even if you have to take other work so you can earning a living and take care of yourself. We can all help by making incremental changes in our lifestyle...buying fewer things, less plastic, eating less meat, etc.

[@trevinbeattie4888]

The thing is even though the current climate change is very rapid from a geological perspective it’s still very slow from a human perspective, and our fear responses evolved to deal with threats that arise and can be dealt with quickly, as in a matter of minutes. We’re not emotionally equipped to deal with crises that take place over a lifetime or more, so it’s important to focus on rational approaches to handling it.

[@ricktd6891]

It's a scam. Scroll up for facts.

[@ricktd6891]

Search : "Global temperature and atmospheric CO2 over geologic time/graph/images" and you will learn the fact that you live at the bottom of an ice age, millions of years long.

[@sharkonwhisky]

It would be nice if that was true. A solid and growing body of scientific evidence refutes your assertion I'm afraid.@@ricktd6891

[@TheDanEdwards]

Anxiety is a human response, complex and difficult to understand. But it can arise from anything one fixates upon - what clothes to buy, whether to look for a new job, family squabbles, etc. I've long defended the science of climatology against the denier industry, yet I grow disappointed with so many of the popularizers of climate phenomena and the problems we are inheriting and passing on. Too many popularizers have taken the scare approach (and the AGW-deniers love to jump on them.) In reality life is full of problems, and the only way to deal with a problem is to work on it.

[@alwynwatson6119]

Thing is most people are more scared of sustainability and the new world order than they are of climate change. And the problem is they are working on what they perceive as problems by attempting to preserve the fossil fuel industry no matter the cost.

[@ricktd6891]

@@alwynwatson6119 CO2 caused CAGW is a scam. Scroll up for facts.

[@prometheus5700]

@@alwynwatson6119 I venture to guess that the fossil fuel industry won't be in any way related to your demise. Stop living scared.

[@alwynwatson6119]

I was literally just pointing out that most people are more scared of sustainability than they are of burning fossil fuels. I venture to guess that renewable energy won't be in any way related to your demise. Stop living scared.@@prometheus5700

[@amayr2]

I love the push to think about your individual impacts to a Point. Put your money where your values lie when feasible for your situation. if not able to buy the Needed lease Impact items it's okay because the most negative influence on our environment is the major capitalist corporations that only care about profits and cut all the corners - an example is all the chemical spills happing in our water. the oil institutes created the term carbon footprint, it is a good tool to connect all the activities of life and try to better the process but it's not on the individual. find a group more change will be done with all helping each other.

[@ricktd6891]

It's all lies. The Earth is historically cold right now. Want to see it? Search : "Global temperature and atmospheric CO2 over geologic time/graph/images."

[@kathyfaulk710]

WOW! How about getting all the climate action groups together and marching on DC and camping out on the Mall until our ELECTED representatives decide to take real action on climate??? Just a thought...

[@spuds129]

I hear you, and see how demanding change feels like a productive approach. At the same time i think political change works differently... How about getting all the climate action groups to identify climate friendly political candidates all over the country and actually get seats inside the capitol and state legislatures? That is what pro-mining and industry groups are doing in the rural region of Wisconsin and it has worked beautifully for them, even before Trump came to power. Also, keep in mind that the majority of people can't afford to travel and take an indefinite unpaid vacation in DC until the legislature magically votes to do something. Just a thought.

[@kathyfaulk710]

@@spuds129 I guess I'm a bit jaded. Repeatedly over the years I have seen people who talked a great game get into office and get swallowed up by the machine. We were talking about climate change in the 70s. Of course we keep trying politically, but it's gotten us nowhere in 50 years. My 96 year old dad says these things take time. So I guess we sacrifice Ft Lauderdale to the gods of "these things take time" and let's sit and talk about our anxiety over real events with a therapist. Anyway, I get your point..

[@spuds129]

I agree with you that the whole thing feels completely intractable!! It all led me down the rabbit hole of do it yourself... now I grow veggies and have a stand at the local farmers market... it's my way of coping with climate guilt, which never fully goes away. I completely agree that a lot of what we know was already known in the 70's... and I agree that costal locations getting swallowed up may be what it takes for society to wake up, at which point we will be long behind the curve. Fingers crossed we can implement enough sustainable solutions, and hopefully our therapists will soothe us enough to stay in the fight for the environment.

[@liondancebird5246]

You're right, Kathy, and Spuds is right too (except where she says this tactic doesn't create political change). We can do both on the political level, and also change the way we live. Rip up our lawns and grow veggies or plant trees!

[@paintingtracey]

Thanks for taking at look at this issue. I've spent the last few years grappling with this and have found a few things that help. The first thing we try to do is see how we can help, what steps can we take to stop it, slow it down, or at least mitigate it in some way. Then we come face to face with our impotence. I've have taken steps to do what I can, and every day I try to improve on that. But that doesn't change my anxiety. What truly helped me is moving through deep acceptance and process what that means. Honestly look at the science, it's bad, lookat the news, it's bad, and look at what our national world leaders are doing, it's not even close to enough. I have come to accept the truth of who we are as a species and what we have already set in motion. I do this from a place of deep compassion. It's heart breaking. The enormity is overwhelming for the capacity of our brains to deal with. I have turned to the tool I've had all along and didn't realize it, my art. Through art I can transform difficult feelings, difficult science, difficult concepts into something. That process, and there is data to support this, is healing. Maybe my art will touch someone else, who knows. I just know I have to do it. I would like to thank the journalist who did this segment and encourage her to reach farther into herself, the well of who she is, and let that show more. My feeling was she was very surface. The acting in the beginning could have been actual footage of her reaction to reading a difficult study or something. Maybe it was because the topic is so difficult. I am only saying this because I can tell she's a great person with potential. I hope this is taken in the spirit of helpful feedback. Be who you are, you don't need to perform for us. Thanks again for doing this.

[@Herr_Vorragender]

You are not to blame. You are not at fault. It is important to remember that, if nothing else at all. But you are not powerless. None of us are. We are "simply" paralized by choice and diversity. Choice because what ever we do, we still have this nagging thought that we should be doing more or something more effective. Diverse because what ever we do, there will always be a select few who have the rage screaming power of armies, trying their very best to drag you down. Diverse because armies will blindly follow the few. However, should we all realize that the root of our problem is within mega filthy greedy corporations in industry, then we have something to direct our engery against. Some point at politics. But they are just corrupt. Industry is the one who is corrupting. We call it "lobbying". What to do? Use your art to sensitise the masses, find a way to make art stick better than their commercials, marketing and brainwashing. Maybe be inspired just a little by Banksy. That path takes time. But when chaos and destruction and anarchy is not a healthy option, then it is up to the artists and comedians to shake up the spirits. A good mind virus will seep into even the thickest of skulls with time.

[@ricktd6891]

It's a scam. Scroll up for facts.

[@ricktd6891]

@@Herr_Vorragender It's a scam. No one is at fault for a problem that doesn't exist. Scroll up for facts.

[@ricktd6891]

@@jennalee1 The global warming scam has killed millions of people and animals. Maybe you should get the facts. Scroll up.

[@ricktd6891]

Try this. Search : "Global temperature and atmospheric CO2 over geologic time/graph/images." The Earth is historically cold right now.

[@purpleprince4636]

I haven't learned learned how to calm down yet. I have been taking small steps to become vegetarian... Learning how to recycle.. As to what I can do.

[@srsatlantic]

🇨🇦 We need to get the businesses to put up footage of them helping the climate & reducing electricity use

[@srsatlantic]

PS. Free likes for everyone

[@rosemarywessel1294]

PS - thanks for making sure to have an expert on there who mentions that anxiety is a normal response to what we're facing. We should be frightened by the circumstance, but addressing it in a healthy way is the key to not letting it control us. Great piece! Thank you for making this.

[@cformosa]

Thank you for this bit of supportive information. I have been worried about the planet my entire life. Didn’t have kids. Watcuu go ing the destruction of the NC mountain areas I spent time in as a kid-❤. I am not feeling well.

[@leon_.ro2000]

You are not alone. Feel my big hug. 🫂❤️

[@lonelycubicle]

PBS Spacetime sent me to PBS Terra which sent me here

[@glenncoco8715]

Lol pbs Terra sent me here too and now because of this comment I'm going to pbs spacetime

[@lonelycubicle]

@@glenncoco8715 Some PBS KZbin channels have mentioned a PBS Earth Month playlist, but can’t find it … posted comments about it, so hope it shows up.

[@pbsvitals]

Hi - Appreciate the interest. The playlist is here: kzbin.info/aero/PLzkQfVIJun2J5q9CIXPAlL95FSb0tJul7

[@lonelycubicle]

@@pbsvitals Thank you!

[@gabrielehanne580]

We need building code changes ! Lets use our gray water to make our gardens as lush as possible , turning them into improvised , edible swamp coolers . Instead of wasting precious garden space on boring lawn ..... Turn them into foraging foodscapes that kids love to ' work' and play in .

[@gwynadams4069]

I'm actually going to school to become an ecotherapist. For those interested, Prescott College has a wonderful program for getting a counseling degree centered around ecospychology.

[@prometheus5700]

Anytime you have a constant pump from the media about anything, there will be anxiety. I remember when I was 14 years old freaking out about the ozone layer. In hindsight, what was happening was worse for my mental health than it was for the ozone layer.

[@rosemarywessel1294]

True. But it was a critical mass of people freaking out that got us - the whole world - to agree on how to reverse the damage to the ozone layer. If only there was that kind of unity on climate change!

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

I HAVE NOT and I WILL NOT watch this video, because I have zero patience for hearing the psychobabble or gaslighting from the antiscience reality-deniers/AGW-deniers. However, JUST FROM THE TITLE ALONE, I will ASSUME you have climate anxiety, as do I, and I 1000% sympathize with you. Moreover, climate activists need to STICK TOGETHER and BE LOYAL TO THE CAUSE of reversing AGW, AND THAT MEANS PRIORITIZING OUR CAUSE OF FIGHTIN AGW ABOVE ALL OTHER CAUSES WE MIGHT DISAGREE WITH. Saying we should uphold the law just because it's the law is a political opinion. Supporting nationalism or the existence of a nation just for its own sake, is a political opinion. Saying we shouldn't outlaw people eating meat or having kids, is a political opinion, that I strongly oppose. I absolutely do support outlawing people eating animals and reproducing. If you disagree with that, yet agree with me on fighting AGW, then PRIORITIZE FIGHTING AGW.

[@Manhunternew]

It's not in the dsm, but anxiety is. And that can apply to multiple topics

[@clivematthews95]

Thank you for making me feel that this is serious, this anxiety is something I feel regularly, I don’t feel it because of me or my actions, simply because I am an open minded person who applies intuition whenever I can, but the biggest source of my anxiety is people around me and autocratic countries that don’t give a damn what they destroy or what ecosystems they disrupt. Making such people understand is always a tall order, especially when they come with their own counter logic for why climate change is a hoax, or that their needs are more serious than what our future might end up as. Just thank you for this video, it helps make me feel better ❤🙏🏾

[@ricktd6891]

It's a scam. Scroll up for facts.

[@ricktd6891]

Did you find any facts I posted? Try this. Search : "Global temperature and atmospheric CO2 over geologic time/graph/images." The Earth is historically cold right now, not hot.

[@annabbott1963]

Love this video. I have also noticed the lack of snow down here in DC, and my kids aren't having snow days, so they are sad as well. I don't eat meat and I'm trying to cut back on cheese and eggs. I'm actively shopping for an EV. I look for every eco friendly product in stores and use as little plastic as possible. Just hoping other people follow along.

[@aluisious]

Your personal change means very little. We need to shut down the level of industrial activity that has caused this problem. No more coal, gas, or oil. No more clearing forests to grow beef. The corporations love it when you make personal changes because it's a distraction from the big problem.

[@liondancebird5246]

Love your comment, too, Ann. :) Yes everyone needs to do their part, starting with lifestyle changes as you are doing. In addition to reducing your family's footprint, you are setting a good example for others, and supporting the development of eco-friendly products.

[@liondancebird5246]

@@aluisious Collectively, individual households (especially in the US) contribute a great deal to the problem. People seem to want someone else to fix the problem, like maybe "the US government," but it has a vested interest in supporting US-based corporations. If there's no market for beef, this might stop the clearing of the Amazon. It's my belief that each of us should do whatever we can, now, before it's too late.

[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

I have an idea that I'll try to put in action in my country - maybe it can be useful (and be better thought/implemented) somewhere else. Based on Caitlin Doughy from the Ask a Mortician channel's advocacy for natural burials: Couldn't we put or bodies on the line to stop desertification? In places where the desert is advancing, agriculture is no longer viable, and housing development not possible anymore (and even more in public owned land), change the use to ecological cemeteries. No hard wood/metal caskets, no embalming, no concrete vaults, maybe a minimal headstone - that's a much more economical burial. This includes an effort for reforestation with native drought-resistant species by the graves. Not just planting trees, but recreating forests. Even small ones will cool the surroundings, provide homes for fauna, and (hopefully) create more rain. It isn't that trees grow where it rains, but evaporation from trees create rains. If you ever have lived close to a big park with lots of trees you may have experienced that there is a difference in temperature and even weather in relation to the rest of the city. Any thoughts?

[@ricktd6891]

Sorry but you believe the opposite of the truth. The Earth is greening, meaning less desert every year. Search : "Earth greening" and scroll up for facts about the global warming scam.

[@ricktd6891]

No comment?

[@ricktd6891]

Your name says "researcher", have you done any?

[@prometheus5700]

Pretty morbid idea tbh

[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

@@ricktd6891 Decades working on bibliographic research in the historical field. Researching about every subject that crosses my path: sciences, music, biographies, etc. Science-fiction, Star Trek universe, for writing fanfiction. Wikipedia editor. Most of the contents of the Kung Fu 1972 TV series article, I found it and edited it. (Guess what, the idea of the series was not stolen from Bruce Lee.) In these days, I am creating a KZbin playlist about climate change, and writing a paper about a case of misinformation happened in the American mainstream media. (Wish me good luck with that one.) And, If you care to watch some videos by Caitlin Doughy, you'll find out she is an excellent historical researcher on a very unusual subject.

[@ellanimation816]

I ended up having a meltdown and ended up being constantly anxious and I ended up barely eating and vomiting every day

[@prometheus5700]

lol

[@supahdinosaurs]

Amazing video!

[@philholding6905]

I have Armageddon Angst. Is this the same as eco anxiety?

[@aprildawnsunshine4326]

Nice to know I'm not alone with feeling like mother nature is screaming in pain nonstop. Idk how I manage to think about anything else because when it hits me it's like an infant screaming with broken bones and bleeding out.

[@bigblueronchampionsagain7450]

Sad bast@#s some people will believe anything and everything their told instead of educating themselves 😂

[@ricktd6891]

It's a scam, stop worrying about the climate, worry about the politics behind the scam. Scroll up for facts.

[@ricktd6891]

@@bigblueronchampionsagain7450 Yup, it's a global scam. Scroll up for facts if you need some.

[@prometheus5700]

Seek help

[@PoiosAftos]

You guys are hilarious! Is this a South Park episode?

[@theonlytruth2357]

Maybe turning off your cellphone Disconnect your self from social media might calm your self 😅

[@ericajohnson7535]

Lollllllll

[@Americanindubai]

Can I get a job I will act as well

[@lawsattitude1999]

lols

[@brittneykrall804]

I thought mine had subsided but I recently saw the Australian float dedicated to the koalas who burned to death in the black summer fires so here we are again.

[@liondancebird5246]

Argh. Those horrible fires in Australia. And then the floods.

[@warrenpeece1726]

Ha ha! Climate anxiety should be alleviated when you realize that all those carbon taxes you're paying will allow the government to, um...fix the climate! You know, like they have fixed the homeless crisis.

[@donroad9424]

Doctor, could you please prescribe me a revolution. Thank you.

[@ernestchadwell9069]

Eco anxiety= the propaganda was well crafted by psychologists who understand how to tickle the amygdala.

[@ddrewable]

It’s not real folks . You’re cured!

[@sixvee5147]

Enjoy it while it lasts! May the Anthroprocene epoch make the Permian-Triassic extinction event seem like a minor footnote in the pages of Earths history. Here's to making scenario SSP5-8.5 of the IPCC assessment a reality.

[@prometheus5700]

Right on!

[@char917]

Such a amazing video

[@yessharp472]

Good news all you bed wetters. It ain't happening. The weather is going to be the same for at least thousands of years. The real experts are trying to help you, but you won't listen. It's almost as if you wish this to happen. The earth is actually in a cooling cycle.

[@liondancebird5246]

Good news, ostrich-like climate denial afflicts an ever-shrinking percentile of literate humans.

[@importedmusic]

1st world problems.

[@liondancebird5246]

Um...climate-driven migration...

[@ricktd6891]

Try some recent history. The Medieval Warm Period 1000 years ago was hotter than today. The Roman Warm Period 2000 years ago was hotter than that. The Minoan Warm Period 3400 - 8000 years ago was hotter than that. You've been lied to. Feel free to check GISP2 data.

[@CătălinaMaria1896]

Doesn't matter! Global warming It's caused by PEOPLE! That's the difference.

[@prometheus5700]

Thank you. I assume you have no anxiety :)

[@The_Greipist]

​@@CătălinaMaria1896Is it? So how did the people in Medieval times and before cause it back then, well before they had or were doing most of the things that it's blamed on today? lol

[@--RSL--]

👎🏻

[@Pfsif]

Turn off the TV.

[@Pietje_Piraat]

feeling stress for nothing. What a waste of time.

[@rzvrzv9894]

Just when I thought the lefties can't get any crazier 🤣