Dennis Prager Show - CHAPLAINS FOR CLIMATE GRIEF?
Aired: 2024-09-09
Duration: 06:11


=== Climate Grief Circles (05:28) ===

[00:00:00]  This woman is devoting her life to climate grief?
[00:00:07]  And she has it herself?
[00:00:09]  What were the words that were used here?
[00:00:13]  This is classic.
[00:00:15]  A woman and it's Oregon.
[00:00:18]  That's two for two.
[00:00:22]  Oh, a retired elementary school teacher.
[00:00:25]  Three for three.
[00:00:28]  Grief, Anger, and Depression.
[00:00:31]  NPR. Yes.
[00:00:35]  Let me see something.
[00:00:37]  I want to see who wrote the article.
[00:00:41]  Shocker, a woman wrote the article.
[00:00:43]  I'm telling all these surprises.
[00:00:45]  Okay, let's see now.
[00:00:53]  Ware realized she had a case of climate grief and needed help.
[00:00:57]  We're as one of the growing number of people using the services of an eco-chaplain.
[00:01:05]  Oh, eco, as in ecology.
[00:01:09]  A new kind of spiritual advisor, rising among clergy trained in handling grief and other difficult emotions.
[00:01:21]  Hmm.
[00:01:23]  Today there are chaplains working at the intersection of climate, grief, and spirituality in the United States, Great Britain, Australia, and Canada.
[00:01:41]  You notice something interesting about that list?
[00:01:46]  They're the English-speaking countries of the world.
[00:01:51]  Only New Zealand is missing, but I'm sure it exists in New Zealand.
[00:01:56]  I don't have an answer to why English-speaking countries have gone off the deep end the most.
[00:02:02]  I don't have an answer.
[00:02:05]  It bothers me.
[00:02:06]  I like having answers, but I don't.
[00:02:09]  Most develop their own ways of addressing the issue from one-on-one therapy sessions to online climate grief circles.
[00:02:21]  Online climate grief circles.
[00:02:28]  I'm sorry, my friends, I can't see you for dinner.
[00:02:33]  I'll be at a climate grief circle meeting.
[00:02:41]  I am curious, if you're on the left and you believe that we are about to implode from heat, Owing to carbon emissions.
[00:02:53]  What do you think about people who join online climate grief circles and in-person support groups?
[00:03:03]  In 2017, the American Psychological Association defined climate anxiety as a, quote, chronic fear of environmental doom.
[00:03:15]  By the way, that is accurate.
[00:03:18]  That is exactly what climate anxiety is.
[00:03:23]  The question is, is it regarded as pathologic or as normal?
[00:03:29]  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.
[00:03:58]  Oh, give me a break.
[00:04:01]  No wonder it's the American Psychological Association.
[00:04:04]  It's another nonsense group.
[00:04:08]  Yeah, this is from, let's see, the American Psychological Association website.
[00:04:14]  What's the date?
[00:04:15]  March 2021. Addressing climate change concerns in practice.
[00:04:21]  The planet is undergoing rapid and unprecedented climate change that is creating stress and mental anguish for people around the world.
[00:04:30]  It's not true.
[00:04:31]  It's not creating it for people around the world.
[00:04:36]  It's creating it largely for people in English-speaking countries and only in affluent countries.
[00:04:44]  This is an anxiety of the affluent, secular, and bored.
[00:04:52]  Remember, affluence plus secularism equals boredom.
[00:04:56]  So it's filled up with this stuff.
[00:04:59]  Three years later, a survey, oh yeah, as many as two-thirds of Americans have suffered from it.
[00:05:05]  I don't believe that.
[00:05:06]  I don't believe the American Psychological Association.
[00:05:12]  Two out of every three people you know in your life have suffered from climate anxiety?

=== Why Is The Planet Shrinking? (00:58) ===

[00:05:18]  I suffer from green anxiety.
[00:05:22]  The greens make me anxious.
[00:05:25]  Not the climate.
[00:05:28]  In 2015, Rabbi Katie Z. Allen, another woman, wrote a call for a new kind of chaplain.
[00:05:41]  In the newsletter of the Association of Professional Chaplains.
[00:05:45]  We are stuck here on our shrinking, warming planet.
[00:05:51]  Why is it shrinking?
[00:05:54]  This is not a cute question.
[00:05:56]  What renders the planet shrinking?
[00:06:01]  I guess it's shrinking because human beings are getting more numerous?
[00:06:08]  I don't know.
[00:06:09]  It's an interesting question.