(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Regime-collaborative mainstream media swung into action after Vice President Kamala Harris warned that America’s youth, who have been subjected to the left’s relentless global boiling doomsaying, were suffering from “climate anxiety.”
Taxpayer-funded PBS NewsHour devoted a Sunday segment to promote the wisdom and comfort of a “climate psychology therapist” to help mentally unhinged, social justice snowflakes who are melting into hysterics over the looming climate armageddon.
PBS anchor John Yang likely didn’t help the purported mental crisis with his introduction of the therapist, warning of “triple-digit temperatures for days on end, smoke from record-setting wildfires fouling the air, warming oceans, bleaching coral reef,” while claiming the doom and gloom can actually be a positive development spurring people to take action.
As the Biden regime’s resident pop-psychologist, Harris informed a NAACP confab earlier this month that a terror sweeping America’s youth was “climate anxiety.” It was a new term the veep said she learned from kids sharing horror stories about global warming at global warming conclaves sponsored by affluent leftists and the federal government.
PBS doubled-down on Harris’s claims, profiling fretting climate cultists who were tracked down to share their foreboding for the future.
“My climate anxiety does affect my daily life again,” lamented one of the troop of traumatized, who claimed to be “living in a city that reaches 117 degrees and I watched the birds outside struggling in the heat.”
After sharing seven stories from “the voices of Americans and how climate change is affecting their feelings,” PBS introduced climate psychologist therapist Leslie Davenport to offer solutions to the alleged problem that climate alarmists have created with their perpetual fear mongering.
PBS ranks among the offenders, dating back several years to when they promoted “a playbook for how to talk to children following a major tragedy” and compared climate change to surviving a mass shooting.
“When does healthy concern about the planet, about climate change become this sort of climate anxiety?” Yang asked, minutes after sounding the alarm on brain-frying temperatures, boiling oceans and bleached corral reefs.
“Well, from the emerging field of climate psychology, one thing that’s really important to understand is we view distress, upset, sadness, grief, anger about climate change to be a really reasonable, even healthy reaction,” said the good doctor, who is currently hawking her book “Emotional Resiliency in the Era of Climate Change.”
When pressed for examples of actions that climate-anxious viewers could take to ease their anxiety — excluding, one would guess, tuning out Yang’s apocalyptic forecasting — Davenport suggested joining a “climate circle” to help cope.
“Talk about it, talk about it to other people who are like-minded, receptive, ‘I feel that way too,’ so that it’s not as isolating,” Davenport said.
“If it’s hard to find that, there are a lot of what are called climate cafes, or climate circles, that can be found by an easy online search, where people just get together often online, remotely, and just say what they’re feeling what they’re experiencing, what people have found helpful.”
