Measles cases are spiking globally. More than 1,000 monkeypox cases have been reported in 29 countries, and children around the world are developing hepatitis for unknown reasons.
And what is the World Health Organization focused on? Climate change, naturally. [bold, links added]
The WHO on Friday published a report on the potential mental-health impact of climate change, and better see your psychiatrist before it’s too late.
“There are gaps in understanding the impact of climate change on mental health and psychosocial well-being, but current knowledge is sufficient to act!” the 16-page report says.
When do knowledge gaps ever stop climate lobbyists from demanding that governments grab more power?
Colorful graphics explain that “witnessing changes and damage to landscape and ecosystems” and “awareness of climate change and extreme weather events and their impacts” could lead to strained social relationships, anxiety, depression, intimate partner violence, helplessness, suicidal behavior, and alcohol and substance abuse, among other things.
Yes, the WHO has found a way to link climate change to every social problem under the sun.
If rising sea levels, warmer temperatures, wildfires, and hurricanes don’t destroy civilization, anxiety about apocalyptic predictions will.
The WHO says many young people report feeling “impairing distress,” perhaps due to alarmist news stories.
“Various terms have emerged to describe these responses, particularly among youth affected by climate change, including climate change anxiety, solastalgia, eco-anxiety, environmental distress, ecological grief, and climate-related psychological distress,” the report says.
Believe it or not, some therapists report they are seeing more young patients afflicted by paralyzing climate dread.
A recent study in The Lancet reported that 45% of young people surveyed in 10 mostly higher and upper-middle-income countries said their feelings about climate change hurt their daily functioning.
Maybe the WHO could do a public-health service by informing young people that the world isn’t doomed. Ah, but its goal is to persuade wealthy countries to give it more money.
The WHO knows that mental illness has become a hot issue in the West in the wake of Covid lockdowns, which it supported. Now it sees a new opportunity to expand its brief, which could be a money-maker for decades.
The WHO lost credibility after being late to raise alarms about Covid and then helping China whitewash an investigation into its origins.
Like many bureaucracies, it wants to expand its authority despite failing in its core responsibilities.
Pictured above: WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
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America needs to not only pull out of the United Nations but WHO as well move them all to Moscow and we can turn that place into a Homeless Shelter
After 33 days of unfettered spread there are now 1000 infected people in 29 countries (35 people per country), and zero deaths.
The WHO has declared that there should be no restrictions on gay pride celebrations, mostly happening this month.
If there is a large increase in spread because of close physical contact during these events, then the WHO will be 100% at fault. They have demonstrated their complete and total incompetence. And this is the group that wants to run the whole world. This is why democracy is important.
Imagine that. Children are being taught their lives are going to end in ten years and they’ve got problems with it. While the truth is that climate-related deaths have improved tenfold over the last century. And more life essential CO2 has made the earth’s ecosystems greener, stronger, more drought-tolerant, and abundant. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in the stars but in ourselves.
Are there “climate pox” in our future?
This article correctly documented that it is the climate change movement that is creating “climate dread,” and not climate change. There is another source of distress. Increasing energy costs and inflation with action on climate change a major factor is a cause of mental distress as family budgets are squeezed.