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Climate Grief Circles
00:05:28
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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? | |
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Why Is The Planet Shrinking?
00:00:58
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| 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. | |