Fighting Climate Anxiety while Creating it.

Many people will deceitfully declare, “I don’t take my work home.” The truth is that from time to time everyone takes their work home, especially when work has been particularly frustrating or disheartening and of course, as a result, spousal issues or family troubles may ensue. I used to tell employees, that frustration and adversity were a two-way street. While work dilemmas can affect one’s home life, issues at home can also affect one’s work life. I would encourage employees to bring home to work, in the same manner as they brought work home. I’m not a therapist, so if something was beyond my competence, I would suggest professional help; however, it was usually a matter of listening and acknowledging to the employee that the employer, in fact, actually cared.

I was once called a bleeding-heart, touchy-feely, liberal for this type of action, but it actually fell under the simple paradigm of honest concern for personnel coupled with motivating greater work morale, rather than a specific ideological manner of conduct. This might sound self-serving or perhaps self-important, but that certainly was not the case. I have consistently thought that the military should not be the only employer to have a monopoly on morale.

I bring you the case of Kimberley Rain Miner, a Climate Scientist at NASA Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California, and a Climate Change Institute Research Assistant Professor. She works at a place where they seem to not have adopted my ‘employee care’ program. Ms. Miner is more than just a tree hugger - she’s actually a tree crier. Read the story on Nature. I had some sympathy for Ms. Miner, until I read, “Even within my lifetime, the climate system has changed noticeably, with hotter summers, longer dry periods, and more frequent and severe storms.” This means that she purposely wishes to falsify the proven facts and statistics.

Ms. Miner appears to have continuing bouts with extreme climate anxiety. She seems to have discovered self-help with the statement, “For me, healing comes in the form of spending my time outside work enjoying the world around me, rewilding hard-to-access land, writing letters to congresspeople, and protecting migrating birds.” From all fowl and avifauna research, some of the greatest assistance to migrating and other birds would be to dismantle renewable energies, especially wind turbines. I cover this in my article, “Wind Power from Wind Bags” as well as exposés such as “Windmills Kill”. There are literally thousands more similar articles.

Some articles will state that as many or more birds are killed by cars, flying into tall structures like communications towers, or being eaten by domestic cats. Apparently taking a situation and making it worse is acceptable if the cause is the promotion and protection of the unproven climate change theory. To vanquish their main objective, which is the protection of all birds, the Audubon Society will “throw their beloved birds under the bus” to advance climate change. 

In another matter, Ms. Miner seems to accept the advice of former United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change author David Schimel who said, “After decades of working to convince the public that climate change is real, he said that we need to work on solutions. He thinks that the current generation of climate scientists needs to move on from education and advocacy to providing solutions for mitigation, adaptation, and resilience”.

This to me translates to, “Since we cannot prove our work, nor can our science, as faulty as it is, persuade and influence the public, “to hell with them”, we’ll just create solutions WE deem suitable.” That is the politically authoritarian way, in which climate change is a continuing conduit. It would seem that NASA is a political machine in support of the current government’s everything climate, everything racism, and everything white supremacy as told in the article, “NASA scientist Dr. Kate Marvel links ‘climate change’ to ‘white supremacy’ – ‘We’ll never head off climate catastrophe without dismantling white supremacy’ – Calls for climate & racial ‘justice’.

As revealed in an article by Phy.Org, the main motivating factor for compelling and captivating people into participating in climate activism is anger. A trio of Norwegian psychologists prepared and administered the survey and discovered that the anger resulted from a belief that a deficiency in mitigating the causes of climate change was assumed. One can be assured that, because of the prejudicial thrust from people like Kimberley Miner, Kate Marvel, and the legacy media in conjunction with progressive, eco-politicians the angered people are driven by one-sided, predisposed news and not any study or educational pursuits of the science.

Mark Twain once quipped, “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Is the fear in advocating proponent climate science and research the fear of one’s false narrative and the prerequisite to push it on behalf of their employer? Courage would be to resist the fear of telling the unequivocal truth.