The
Securities and Exchange Commission published a document, describing how publicly
traded companies should apply existing disclosure rules to the risk that
climate change developments may have on their businesses. (“Commission Guidance
Regarding Disclosure Related to Climate Change,” January 27, 2010)
In
response to this resource-wasteful guidance, Senator John Barrasso and
Representative Bill Posey of the 112th Congress introduced similar
bills, S. 1393 and H.R. 2603, prohibiting the enforcement of the SEC’s climate
change disclosure guidance.
Companies
had no experience in the so-called risks associated with climate change, there
is no tangible actual or potential reputational harm from climate change, and
the whole process is highly speculative.
The
most egregious stretch of manufactured global warming effects is a 55-page
report published in February 2012 by the National Wildlife Federation titled,
“The Psychological Effects of Global Warming on the United States: And Why the
U.S. Mental Health Care System is Not Adequately Prepared.”
Prepared
by a forensic psychiatrist and an attorney who adapted in 2006 Al Gore’s book
and film, “An Inconvenient Truth,” into a training course curriculum, the
lengthy psychobabble, a “national forum and research report,” chastises
Americans for “the adolescent-like disregard for the dangers we are warned of,
driving green house gases up with only casual concern.”
We
are asked, “To find a place in our hearts that mobilizes us to fly into action,
forewarned, determined, and relentless.” We are probed with very childish
questions, “what would the rest of the world think of us,” “where will we be
safe,” “how will we feel about ourselves?”
Rational
adults do not care what the rest of the world thinks. Americans feel safe
unless environmentalists who treat us like children want to alter our lives
fundamentally in the image of their worldview. We feel quite good about
ourselves, although lately our egos have taken a beating, given the state of
economic despair and purposeful destruction around us wrought by Congress who
acts against “we the people” and by this Marxist administration.
The
report is calling on “mental health professionals to focus on this, the social
justice issue of all times.” The twenty-four college professors, lawyers,
doctors, and lobbyists who took part in the forum when this document was
distributed represented medical colleges of psychiatry, the CDC, environmental
NGOs, climate change lobbyists, and proponents of UN Agenda 21 Convention on Biodiversity.
The doomsday scenarios described in this document
include many frightening and preposterous statements that have no backing in
fact or science. Presented with a veneer of truth, supposed global warming
effects on the psyche of the United States are presented as consensus opinion
of people affiliated with environmental groups and universities. Consensus
statements by public figures with an agenda are not facts.
The National Forum and Research Report is divided
into an executive summary, six chapters, and a conclusion. (February 2012)
The Executive Summary concentrates on
“Climate change lessons from the severe weather of summer 2011.” Violent
weather is blamed on global warming instead of focusing on the fact that
violent weather existed long before man’s industrial revolution.
The entire report ignores the fact that we have a
much larger population today, almost 7 billion people in the path of harm in
case of violent weather, we are more aware of occurring disasters, and we are almost
instantly informed with a click of a button, as the news of any climactic event
travels fast via Internet.
“Global warming…in the coming years… will foster
public trauma, depression, violence, alienation, suicide, psychotic episodes,
post-traumatic stress disorders and many other mental health-related
conditions.” (p. i)
“The U.S. mental health care system is only
minimally prepared to address the effects of global climate change-related
disasters and incidents.” (p. ii)
The
writers are stretching the exploratory relationships between supposed global
warming trends in climate and the state of the American public mental health.
“An estimated 200 million Americans will be exposed to serious psychological
distress from climate related events and incidents.” (p. v) “Some 50 million elderly people, and
America’s 35 million low-income people will suffer a disproportionate amount of
physical and psychological stress.” (p. vi) By what scientific method have they
ascertained these findings?
On
pages v and xi, suggesting that “anxieties could increase with continuous and
frequent media reports on the subject,” (translation - ad nauseam reporting of
one event on every alphabet soup channel for days on end), the Executive
Summary recommends that “mental health practitioners, first responders
and primary care professionals should have comprehensive plans and guidelines
for climate change.”
People
have problems finding doctors to treat them for actual ailments, have no
insurance, cannot afford insurance anymore because of the expensive and
choice-robbing of Obamacare, and now professionals in the mental health
community are urged to “shape the best language” to allow environmentalists to
control people based on non-existent climate change illnesses?
“Ramping
up and sustaining pressure on public officials is imperative.” (p. xiii)
Chapter 1 laments the fact that public policy
leaders are not implementing legislative proposals to” reduce gas emissions
enough to restore balance to our world and avoid long term environmental
damage.” (p. 3) Climate stability is so precarious, they say, that human
stability and physical changes are “unprecedented in all of history.” (p. 2)
Chapter 2 uses hurricane Katrina, one of
thousands of hurricanes in our collective history, as an example of the
manufactured word “solastalgia”…a “palpable sense of dislocation and loss that
people feel when they perceive changes in their local environment as harmful.”
(p. 7)
I
must be feeling “solastalgic” every day then as environmentalists are pushing
UN Agenda 21 undesirable and property-robbing changes on our society without
our approval.
The
authors of the report, citing that 39 percent of Katrina evacuees experienced
moderate PTSD, stated that “people suffer more from disasters that are “man
made” than they do from natural disasters. How do they know?
I
have PTSD every time I see communism around me (“man made” disaster) and I have
experienced PTSD after a devastating earthquake (natural disaster). I cannot
honestly discern which one is affecting or has affected me more. To answer such
a question would be my opinion, my perception, which is neither scientific nor
a fact.
“Climate
change is already having an impact on biodiversity,...loss of Arctic sea ice
threatens biodiversity across an entire biome and beyond.” (Secretariat of the
Convention on Biological Diversity, Outlook 3, May 2010)
I
imagine that such bombastic statements have a frightening effect on ignorant
and vulnerable adults and children who look up to authority for answers.
Chapter 3 discusses “traumatic global warming
events” on vulnerable populations such as mentally ill, or the existence of
epidemic levels of asthma among pre-school children. (p. 17)
Chapter 4 stretches global warming to
unbelievable limits by connecting it to the stresses of war.
“As
the U.S. military looks ahead to the likely causes of war in the next 30
years…global warming is front and center.” (p. 20)
Citing
Army statistics that 20 out of 100,000 soldiers have killed themselves, the
report attributes war, strife, social injustice, and suicide rates to global
warming caused by the rich.
Redistribution
of wealth will be necessary in order to avert the unleashing of global warming
and the destruction of 30 percent of species and of humanity itself.
“The
most profound danger to world peace in the coming years will stem not from the
irrational acts of states or individuals but from the legitimate demands of the
world’s dispossessed. Of these poor and disenfranchised, the majority live a
marginal existence in equatorial climates. Global warming, not of their making
but originating with the wealthy few, will affect their fragile ecologies most.
Their situation will be desperate and manifestly unjust.” (p. 22)
Chapter 5 predicts nationwide anxiety. Dr. Eric
Chivian “stated that the destructive potential of global warming is, in many
ways, “greater than what we faced with nuclear war.”(p. 27)
The
authors suggest that a green economy could fix everything for the common good, “would provide
opportunities for struggling American workers and some stalled or outmoded
enterprises dependent on older industries and burning fossil fuels.” (p. 28)
Hapless
Americans should not worry though, “the discipline of psychology can be used to
uncover what the barriers are to reducing our carbon footprint and adopting a
green lifestyle.” (p. 31). The nanny control state will take care of everyone
and everything. All you have to do is relinquish your freedom completely.
Chapter 6 addresses the high cost of ignoring
mental health and climate change. “The American Journal of Psychiatry estimates
that mental illness results in lost earnings of $193.2 billion per year.”(p.
35) How do lost earnings from mental
illness connect to global warming? How is a person “grievously hurt by global
warming?” I think liberals and environmentalists have the answer already
figured out.
I
do not know about you but I need to take something for my headache before a much-deserved
Realityville break in order to restore my sanity. Environmental activism for
the sake of controlling the globe’s productive population is a mental disease
in itself.
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