Piling On

In this hard-hitting news story, PBS, the taxpayer-funded Panic Broadcasting System, interviewed Climate Psychologist Therapist, Leslie Davenport, to show despite, “triple-digit temperatures for days on end, smoke from record-setting wildfires fouling the air, warming oceans, bleaching coral reefs,” to show how climate change “can be a positive thing, spurring people to action”.

The concluding result certainly seems to be the antithesis of the cause, or in other words, cheer on climate change for the sake of producing constructive personal characteristics and favorable traits. The practice must be growing since there seems to be a directory for Climate Psychologist Therapists and it appears to be headquartered around my old stomping grounds, the now much cockeyed with foreign progressivism, Bozeman, Montana.

There do not seem to be many schools for achieving degrees in Climate or Environmental Psychology, but I’m sure most traditional psychologists can self-graduate under the climate banner.

In the interview, the first advisement or counsel from the therapist is, “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. Because it's built into us as people that if we feel risks, threats, experience losses, there's going to be upset. So it's really important to acknowledge that if you're feeling that on any level of intensity, it really means you're paying attention, you care, you're empathetic to what's happening to our world”.

So in essence, she says, if you are in abundant fear, which is certainly the preferred emotion instilled by the climate crusader, it means you are alert and compassionate, so again climate change has its positive attributes. This is virtue signaling to the distressed climate change customer, so they will continue to believe, be convinced, continue to be activists, and above all visit her once a week for more assurance of the hoax. Getting involved with one’s anxiety certainly seems a highly debatable way to treat the subject’s anxiety - but again I suppose, this promotes continuing trips to one’s therapist.

Davenport further says, “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.” Well, of course, one advocating for climate change would not want another to talk to a refuter to discover all of the science that proves anthropogenic climate change is a political hoax. A climate promoter would not want someone to reveal the statistics and facts showing climate change has never been proven.

In this interview, there was a two-pronged bolstering approach. First, the interviewer, John Yang gets in the typical talking points of climate advocacy - certainly emblematic of PBS - then Davenport piles on by suggesting those suffering from climate anxiety climb right back on the same horse that so frightens them. When it comes to fostering climate change advancement, there can be no such thing as “Everything in moderation.”

A few days ago, I listened to a podcast that stated the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM) anticipates the loss of 18,000 jobs if all of the current administration’s regulations on appliances are made mandatory. Because of these stringent and gratuitous regulations, the manufacture of all home appliances is expected to be made in other countries. For years the progressives touted “good-paying green jobs”, but I suspect that perhaps only the “Climate Psychologist Therapists” have come to fruition.

Many scientists have a “shovel-ready job” for BS like in PBS.