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Heat waves and extreme weather aren’t just affecting our physical lives, there’s growing evidence they’re impacting our mental health too.
A film by Lily Freeston, Ian Allardyce, Adam Henshaw and Raynor Bloom.
Part of the BBC Mental Wellbeing season, made in partnership with @TheOpenUniversity
Featuring author, journalist and neuroscientist Clayton Aldern, and Assistant Professor Charles Ogunbode from the University of Nottingham.
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Being alive is affecting our mental health!
Go voting it and support climate activists , your mental health will benefit. I would say people disconnected from the planet are sick not the ones suffering thinking about our future. Only people who have climate anxiety are mentally healthy everyone else is ignorant🌎🤝 or mad 🌳💛 ignoring the reality is not healthy, is just a coping mechanism like in trauma reaction. That’s not healthy either
I'm not worried about the climate change scam.
Climate change and weather extremes are now a reality
But millions are now waking up to the fact that it is not human caused through the burning of fossil fuels. Other factors are causing it which are beyond the control of mankind. So the the whole world going net zero isn't going to stop climate change.
The unborn are not alive! Idiot! I assume the cells in our bodies are not alive either. Or the bacteria. Maybe he’s not alive. We protect every other person group and orientation, but unborn babies aren’t alive. 😢
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.
23.44 degree Tilt Gaurantees 4 seasons, Nothing will change unless we see a Volcano or Forest Fire. Temperature is Always Temporary.
It (Isn't) climate change!! Confused? Read The Directions (THE HOLY BIBLE) This and MANY other Things are Written in HIS Letter to Each and Everyone of US!!
Turn OFF your Air Conditioner NOW. Air Conditioners produce 117 million metric tons of greenhouse gasses annually! A tremendous amount, especially considering only the Elite can afford to use them.
Our grandparents and most of the rest of the world live just fine without Air Conditioning, and you can too. Most of the people who live on the Equator have no Air Conditioning.
Vote to turn off Air Conditioning in all Government Buildings.
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% (<$1 a day). And death from weather events have collapsed by a factor 50 from 241 million down to 5 million even while the global population has increased by a factor of 5.
There is no climate crisis. There is no evidence of a climate crisis.
Even if there is radical climate change (and that is a very, very big 'if') with the manifestation of numerous tipping points (including permafrost thaw, ocean hydrates dissociation, Arctic sea ice loss, rainforest dieback, polar ice sheet loss, AMOC slowdown, and Indian monsoon variability) the disruption to economic growth and well-being will be minimal. The world's economy will continue to grow making everyone much richer. By 2050 world mean consumption per capita should be $29,100 with tipping points or $29,300 without tipping points. Barely noticeable. Apart from it being approximately double what it is now. By 2100 world mean consumption per capita should be $71,000 with or without tipping points (Dietz et al, 2021).
This is the most fortunate time to be alive in the whole of history.
"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
"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
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).
There is no objective observational evidence that we are living in a global climate crisis.
The UN's IPCC AR6, chapter 12 "Climate Change Information for Regional Impact and for Risk Assessment", section 12.5.2, table 12.12 confirms there is a lack of evidence or no signal that the following have changed:
Air Pollution Weather (temperature inversions),
Aridity,
Avalanche (snow),
Average precipitation,
Average Wind Speed,
Coastal Flood,
Agricultural drought,
Hydrological drought,
Erosion of Coastlines,
Fire Weather (hot and windy),
Flooding From Heavy Rain (pluvial floods),
Frost,
Hail,
Heavy Rain,
Heavy Snowfall and Ice Storms,
Landslides,
Marine Heatwaves,
Ocean Acidity,
Radiation at the Earth’s Surface,
River/Lake Floods,
Sand and Dust Storms,
Sea Level,
Severe Wind Storms,
Snow, Glacier, and Ice Sheets,
Tropical Cyclones.
How about some quotes from the UN's IPCC AR6?
"There is low confidence in the emergence of heavy precipitation and pluvial and river flood frequency in observations, despite trends that have been found in a few regions."
"There is low confidence in the emergence of drought frequency in observations, for any type of drought, in all regions."
"Observed mean surface wind speed trends are present in many areas, but the emergence of these trends from the interannual natural variability and their attribution to human-induced climate change remains of low confidence due to various factors such as changes in the type and exposure of recording instruments, and their relation to climate change is not established. . . The same limitation also holds for wind extremes (severe storms, tropical cyclones, sand and dust storms)."
There is no objective observational evidence that we are living through a global climate crisis. None.
No such thing as climate change!!
The earth varies in temperature!!
Check your ice cores!!!
Just don’t watch the news. It’s an anxiety machine
We can’t know the future.
We make it
I think a corrupt government, carbon taxes, mass immigration and inflation is more stressful. Lets not get started with the lie that started 4 years ago where they got rid of a lot of elderly.
Climate change doesn't bother me one little bit!! I wasn't stupid enough to buy land by the oceans!!
Think about how crazy people who bought land next to the ocean will get!!!
"Deal with stress by engaging with nature in green spaces" Bro they were just saying that in heatwaves it is hot to go outside and and all the green spaces were brown!
Ironically, those witnessing the devastations of climate change can develop eco-anxiety as they fear the environment may not be able to recover overwhelms them