Is climate change affecting our mental health? | BBC Ideas 

I went nuts around 2020 but now I accepted we're toast. This is our last normal decade.

The world isn’t collapsing, it is healing by bringing everything to our awareness. God bless.

With everything I've been seeing in the news about heatwaves, floods, fires etc. both domestically and abroad it's really making me wonder if I should just live things up now (i.e. not work) and just stay single and die. I think having children with someone I love and starting a family would be nice but more recently I'm questioning whether or not it is prudent, after all why would you want to bring a life into a world that is becoming more chaotic and uncertain? Why would you want to subject a human being to that kind of thing? It's not even just climate change, I truly believe we are starting to see signs of societal collapse everywhere. Inequality is growing, we are still burning huge amounts of fossil fuels, oil is required to make so many products like plastic, microplastics are polluting the oceans, topsoil is eroding, crops are already failing. I honestly cannot see a way out, I don't think technology will save us, the only way out is if our population drastically decreases and the worst part about that is that those who are affected the most from climate change are the ones with the smaller carbon footprints, even if those people die and populations shrink emissions will still be high because people in richer countries will survive anyway.

Paint a picture of the future we desire? I'm almost 51, I treid that in the early 90"s when recycling plastic was advertised as REAL... or that organic food was better, but somehow it's still not the only thing available. There is no future ahead that I desire, because there's not a chance in hell humans are going to give up their conveniences. I gave up driving, but I'm an oddball. Let's just get honest, this is gonna suck and we are going to act like idiots because we are all going to be under such stress from either heat, or floods, or running out of water... and that's just the tip of the melting iceberg folks.

The higher the temperature, the crazier people get.

Political parties n govt across the world does'nt bother. Recent heatwave in India is affecting electrical circuits causing frequent fires in urban areas. Its not only lower income group but also middle income group are impacted.

The only honest coping method is acceptance. That's the way it is with anything in life that can't be changed. You have to have daily hope and live for the day. The choice is to either keep a healthy mind in a dying world or let it become sickened. The second option does you no good.

Its common sense that sleeping in an unsafe home or without a home because a tornado took the home away, it got flooded, or it burned, or was destroyed, certainly it will affect your mind, brain and bodies. Sleeping between rattle snakes, rats without clean water to clean up and clean food will torture you and affect your mind.

Ask military prisoners of war, or homeless people that eating dirty food, having no clean water to clean up or drink , living with rats and bugs is considered human torture. Look for the meaning of the word torture. It implies humiliating a human being to the point of destroying his dignity and self worth.

The Weight of Nature is a useful book. Thank you Dr Aldern.

"Heat-attributable mortality fractions have declined over time in most countries owing to general improvements in health care systems, increasing prevalence of residential air conditioning, and behavioural changes. These factors, which determine the susceptibility of the population to heat, have predominated over the influence of temperature change." IPCC

Really well shot and edited. :-)

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"As regards disease, the Lancet's Countdown on Health and Climate Change (2019) shows Climate-related deaths are a small proportion of all-cause fatalities (1990-2017). That is based on data per IHME (2019), and between 1990 and 2017, the cumulative age-standardized death rate (ASDRs) from climate-sensitive diseases and events (CSDEs) dropped from 8.1% of the all-cause ASDR to 5.5%, while the age-standardized burden of disease, measured by disability-adjusted life years lost (DALYs) declined from 12.0% to 8.0% of all-cause age-standardized DALYs. Thus, the burdens of death and disease from CSDEs are small, and getting smaller. However, the declines in death and disease rates from CSDEs since 1990 are only a small proportion of longer-term declines across the globe. In the USA, one of the few places with good long-term data, death rates from dysentery, typhoid, paratyphoid, other gastrointestinal diseases, and malaria - all water-related diseases and therefore, almost by definition, climate-sensitive declined 99-100% between 1900 and 1970. We are solving our problems with CSDEs faster than we are solving our other health problems." Indur M. Goklany

Government say we have till 2050 to go carbon neutral but I think it must be now

I believe we have past the point of no return.............................

If You Worry About Something That Is Beyond Your Conceptual Capacity, Even If You Can Parot The Talk, Not Being Able To WALK The Talk, Will Always Weigh Down On You!

Everyone should watch the movie called The Road starting Viggo Mortensen. That is what future generations will need to contend with.

Having children when it is clear that their futures will be short and nasty is beyond sick.

Being alive is affecting our mental health!

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It's certainly affected the red staters 😄

There has been a 10% decline in natural disasters since 2000 (CRED). Normalised disaster losses have decreased since 1990 and human mortality due to extreme weather has decreased by more than 95% since 1920, so you're 50 times less likely to die from a climate-related disaster in a world that's 1°C warmer than 100 years ago (EM-DAT, CRED/UC). Deaths from drought have declined by 99%! As an example of good news, Climate Change saved 555,103 lives in England and Wales between 2001 and 2020 (ONS, 2022).

Tendentious pamphlet! 😒

while Climate change is Real ENOUGH! (I know, I am an old boomer who's garden did not get any frost at all this year) ...the narratives of many people on this subject are a very serious cause for concern..... - too many people still have the 'if we don't act now' mentality, - the better way to look at things is 'how to adapt' ...in a warmer and warmer climate the need for heating is less and less...

I'm sure that is effecting many to decerebrate

Since 1900 the global temperature has increased by 1.3°C. In that time humanity has flourished. Life expectancy has more than doubled from 32 to 73 years. Literacy has quadrupled from 21% to 86%. Humans are seven times more productive ($2,241 to $15,212 GDP per capita, per annum). People are better fed, having ⅓ more calories every day (2,192kcal to 2,928kcal). Global extreme poverty rates have tumbled from 70% to less than 10% (

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Just don’t watch the news. It’s an anxiety machine We can’t know the future. We make it

No shitty government is

Save Our Planet Now!

Dude, the climate has always changed throughout all of time. Thinking we can make it some perfect thing its never been is the mental health crisis.

You'll know exactly why this is happening.

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Because we all know we're doomed. Take a pill. Doomerism is bad for business.

We'll all need those svelte spacesuits they wear on Musk's rockets. Perhaps more schools need to teach students about Bhutan? The people there are clearly more in-sync with the Earth's firstborns' ways -- trees -- where natural processes *ONLY* create byproducts like pure oxygen, clean water and rich manure.

Climate change is one of the most significant problem mankind is facing 😢😢

'Mental health'? How about our survival as a species due to the fact that the human population is far, far beyond the long term carrying capacity of the planet now, never mind the complete disruption of agriculture that is and will be caused by global warming. At a minimum, I think we will see the human population crash, or it could just be 'Soylent Green' come to reality.

Eat, drink and be merry...for tomorrow we fry.

No the demons aka fallen angels are

23.44 degree Tilt Gaurantees 4 seasons, Nothing will change unless we see a Volcano or Forest Fire. Temperature is Always Temporary.

For all you climate Fragile persons, give Tony Heller a try. You'll get your life back...