Dennis Prager Show - Scaring Kids Over Climate Change!
Aired: 2021-09-27
Duration: 04:15


=== Need a Climate Psychologist? (04:15) ===

[00:00:00]  Communicating about climate change effectively is critical to get people to engage with it productively, according to climate psychologist Renee Lertzman.
[00:00:12]  It is shocking that it's a female.
[00:00:16]  I kid.
[00:00:17]  The president is getting a booster shot live on TV. This man is one hero.
[00:00:23]  This guy is really something.
[00:00:29]  And he has a mask on?
[00:00:30]  He's putting it on?
[00:00:31]  He's getting a booster shot on TV.
[00:00:46]  So this is his third shot.
[00:00:50]  She's gonna get one.
[00:00:51]  I think she's teaching that.
[00:00:53]  But she's gonna get one, yes.
[00:00:55]  All right, it's enough of this.
[00:00:59]  You know what is fascinating?
[00:01:02]  The booster shots for the healthy in America and how many people around the world are getting no shots.
[00:01:11]  We're trying to get 12-year-olds to get shots.
[00:01:15]  And old people in the third world have no shots.
[00:01:22]  What happened to our vaunted...
[00:01:25]  Concern for humanity.
[00:01:28]  He's getting a booster shot.
[00:01:30]  Our hero.
[00:01:31]  Let's play the old thing that I kept amazingly...
[00:01:35]  It was amazingly prophetic of me to keep this when he was vice president of the United States.
[00:01:43]  I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places now.
[00:01:46]  I was so stunned by the coward who was vice president of the United States, the hypochondriac, that I kept that.
[00:01:54]  I played it for you for years and years before COVID. This is the President of the United States now.
[00:02:06]  Oh my God.
[00:02:08]  So the whole thing, this whole article about climate psychologists is predicated on that it will really hurt...
[00:02:18]  But we have to figure out your child, but we really have to figure out how to deal psychologically effectively with it.
[00:02:25]  So you can't allow your child to be too pessimistic.
[00:02:28]  But you can't have it both ways.
[00:02:31]  You can't say it's an existential threat to humanity and to life on Earth and then have your kid go, okay, no problem.
[00:02:41]  There's no way to square that circle, as they say.
[00:02:49]  All right, have deep compassion.
[00:02:52]  Let me look up.
[00:02:53]  Oh, okay, there it is.
[00:02:55]  Wait, it's absolutely essential that we start from a place of really having deep compassion for that feeling of nothing I can do will matter.
[00:03:06]  So it's not like we shouldn't be feeling that or there's something wrong with us for feeling that our individual actions are not sufficient.
[00:03:15]  Actually, I'm just going to really connect with myself here and say, you know what?
[00:03:21]  Yeah, it's really painful.
[00:03:23]  It's really hard.
[00:03:25]  This is a psychologist you really want to take your kid to.
[00:03:29]  If you take your kid to a psychologist like Rene Lertzman, then you need...
[00:03:36]  Well, you don't need a psychologist.
[00:03:38]  Well, you might.
[00:03:40]  But you might need a psychologist for why...
[00:03:43]  You're so easily frightened.
[00:03:47]  Why you have been suckered in to anything the media scares you about is probably phony.
[00:03:55]  I'm not saying there's no climate change.
[00:03:57]  I'm not saying the world's not getting warmer.
[00:03:59]  The world is getting warmer.
[00:04:01]  We'll deal with it.
[00:04:02]  It's a hell of a lot better than if the world got colder.
[00:04:06]  But the joke is, we, the United States, are such a tiny percentage of the world.