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Sept. 9, 2024 - Dennis Prager Show
06:11
CHAPLAINS FOR CLIMATE GRIEF?
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This woman is devoting her life to climate grief?
And she has it herself?
What were the words that were used here?
This is classic.
A woman and it's Oregon.
That's two for two.
Oh, a retired elementary school teacher.
Three for three.
Grief, Anger, and Depression.
NPR. Yes.
Let me see something.
I want to see who wrote the article.
Shocker, a woman wrote the article.
I'm telling all these surprises.
Okay, let's see now.
Ware realized she had a case of climate grief and needed help.
We're as one of the growing number of people using the services of an eco-chaplain.
Oh, eco, as in ecology.
A new kind of spiritual advisor, rising among clergy trained in handling grief and other difficult emotions.
Hmm.
Today there are chaplains working at the intersection of climate, grief, and spirituality in the United States, Great Britain, Australia, and Canada.
You notice something interesting about that list?
They're the English-speaking countries of the world.
Only New Zealand is missing, but I'm sure it exists in New Zealand.
I don't have an answer to why English-speaking countries have gone off the deep end the most.
I don't have an answer.
It bothers me.
I like having answers, but I don't.
Most develop their own ways of addressing the issue from one-on-one therapy sessions to online climate grief circles.
Online climate grief circles.
I'm sorry, my friends, I can't see you for dinner.
I'll be at a climate grief circle meeting.
I am curious, if you're on the left and you believe that we are about to implode from heat, Owing to carbon emissions.
What do you think about people who join online climate grief circles and in-person support groups?
In 2017, the American Psychological Association defined climate anxiety as a, quote, chronic fear of environmental doom.
By the way, that is accurate.
That is exactly what climate anxiety is.
The question is, is it regarded as pathologic or as normal?
I mean, if people have anxiety in wartime, if you're in Ukraine and you have anxiety over a Russian attack, it would not be considered to be a form of pathology. it would not be considered to be a form of Three years later, a survey by the association found that as many as two-thirds of Americans have suffered from it.
Oh, give me a break.
No wonder it's the American Psychological Association.
It's another nonsense group.
Yeah, this is from, let's see, the American Psychological Association website.
What's the date?
March 2021. Addressing climate change concerns in practice.
The planet is undergoing rapid and unprecedented climate change that is creating stress and mental anguish for people around the world.
It's not true.
It's not creating it for people around the world.
It's creating it largely for people in English-speaking countries and only in affluent countries.
This is an anxiety of the affluent, secular, and bored.
Remember, affluence plus secularism equals boredom.
So it's filled up with this stuff.
Three years later, a survey, oh yeah, as many as two-thirds of Americans have suffered from it.
I don't believe that.
I don't believe the American Psychological Association.
Two out of every three people you know in your life have suffered from climate anxiety?
I suffer from green anxiety.
The greens make me anxious.
Not the climate.
In 2015, Rabbi Katie Z. Allen, another woman, wrote a call for a new kind of chaplain.
In the newsletter of the Association of Professional Chaplains.
We are stuck here on our shrinking, warming planet.
Why is it shrinking?
This is not a cute question.
What renders the planet shrinking?
I guess it's shrinking because human beings are getting more numerous?
I don't know.
It's an interesting question.
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