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[Victoria Watcher]

Sea level rise and coastal erosion were also identified as having an impact on local Indigenous communities, who risk losing their traditional foods and medicines and their spiritual, cultural or historical sites.

https://www.saanichn...ks-to-victoria/




Oh boy. The natives are not primitive.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 06 March 2022 - 11:45 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Another aspect of climate justice Briggs noted is to ensure there is better Indigenous leadership within government. Before colonization there wasn’t a climate crisis, he said.

Rally attendee Severin Odland and a member of Climate Justice Victoria said that it is more important than ever to put pressure on the government due to the climate emergency.

https://www.vicnews....ransition-act/#

That one is a bit fuzzy for me. Did colonization cause or lead to the climate crisis?

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 12 March 2022 - 03:39 PM.

[Nparker]

...Before colonization there wasn’t a climate crisis, he said...

What sort of nonsensical statement is this?

[spanky123]

What sort of nonsensical statement is this?

 

I don't see what race has to do with it, there are many FN leaders who are happily cutting down trees as fast as they can while others are pumping oil and gas and building pipelines. Seems to me that greed doesn't care about your skin colour or background.

[Victoria Watcher]

Then came the suicides. 

 

“A lot of the youth that I was seeing were attempting to commit suicide because of climate distress,” she told Glacier Media.

 

“They're fearing that they'll never outlive the climate disasters and global warming… they overtly expressed that.”

 

Adamson says at least three young patients she saw tried to end their life through a drug overdose because they feared climate change. Some were transferred to hospitals that could provide higher levels of care. 

 

The doctor does not know how or if all the patients survived. 

 

There is emerging evidence that government inaction on climate change is impacting young people's health in severe ways. Last September, a global survey of 10,000 young people across 10 countries found nearly half of those between 16 and 25 reported psychological distress over climate change.

 

https://www.timescol...anxiety-5198699

 

 

 

Climate change is not driving suicide, it's fearmongering over climate change.  Climate change has a big net benefit to Canadians.  But that is not featured in the media or taught in schools.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 29 March 2022 - 03:44 AM.

[Nparker]

...Climate change is not driving suicide, it's fearmongering over climate change. ..

This for sure.

[Victoria Watcher]

Sea levels might rise 12 metres later today:



Massive waves and storm surges forecast for west coast of Island, wind warning issued for Greater Victoria

Environment Canada has issued warnings high winds over parts of Vancouver Island this weekend and into Monday.

https://www.timescol...-island-5226406

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 04 April 2022 - 08:46 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

A group of B.C. researchers have launched a national project to automatically monitor population-level expressions of climate distress in real time. The final goal: warn front-line workers and communities before a patient spirals into crisis.

 

Led by Simon Fraser University researcher Kiffer Card, the project is part of a growing effort to understand how climate change is impacting Canadians’ mental health.

 

The research will begin with a year-long traditional survey capturing the sentiments of up to 20,000 individual Canadians. Meanwhile, working with Twitter, Facebook and Reddit, the researchers will compare that survey data — “a barometer,” as Card puts it — with aggregate, population-level data harvested from social media posts across the country.

 

“This is on the order of millions of Tweets every day,” said Card. 

 

It’s not the first time Card has turned to online communities to track the mental health of Canadians. 

 

 

 

https://www.timescol...-canada-5279856

 

 

 

No kidding, because we are pumping kids full of garbage and lies about climate change.

[dasmo]

 

 

No kidding, because we are pumping kids full of garbage and lies 

 

I made it more precise for you.... 

[Mike K.]

No kidding, because we are pumping kids full of garbage and lies about climate change.[/font][/size][/size][/font][/color]

Growing up, children in my class were terrified of peak oil doomsday predictions that permeated science classes back then.

We were supposed to hit peak oil in the early 2000s with an energy crisis spiralling our society into a tailspin it could not recover from.

The ice caps were supposed to have all melted by now, too, and the temperature was supposed to have been so high that we’d be witnessing a mass die off.

There were other doomsday predictions teachers were scaring us kids with on top of all of that. I don’t even know if it was political at the time or part of the curriculum but it definitely scared us and some kids even went on into their later years with feelings of hopelessness.

The called the phenomenon global warming. Back in the 70s wasn’t us called global cooling?

Today, from what I can see, the campaign of fear has been ramped up multi fold compared to what we grew up with. I can see how some young people are not able to mentally handle the pressure.

[Matt R.]

Still lots of anxiety around wind from the severe windstorm we had a few years back, still lots of anxiety around forest fires and smoke and local risk, and we will no doubt see some anxiety from last summer’s heat dome event, next winter we’ll see anxiety because of the extreme cold we experienced this winter.

All wild weather events, but suicidal over it? Come on. Must be something more at play here.

[Nparker]

...The called the phenomenon global warming. Back in the 70s wasn’t us called global cooling?...

In the '70s we were taught to fear the "greenhouse effect" and of course the hole in the ozone layer; both of which were to have rendered the earth uninhabitable by now.

[Matt R.]

Didn’t we fix the ozone layer problem?

[Mike K.]

Oh yes, the hole in the ozone layer! I forgot about that one. The Greenhouse Effect was a common issue being taught in schools, too.

I’m telling you, the peak oil stuff terrified kids. It’s like you’re in school, and the documentary, put on by your teacher (someone you trust), is telling you prospects for humanity are grim? What are you supposed to think as a fifth grader? That can really mess a kid up.

[Victoria Watcher]

We fixed the hole and solved acid rain too.

[Mike K.]

Omg, and acid rain!!

I got laughed out of a room once asking a bunch of guys in Chicago how they deal with acid rain. As kids we were taught in school the American Midwest suffers from acid rain.

[phx]

It is good that global warming has saved us from the impending ice age.

[JimV]

Omg, and acid rain!!
 

And don’t forget that according to the infamous Club of Rome we were going to run out of oil by the late 70s and strategic minerals by the 90s. Global food riots would ensue shortly thereafter.   Another notable prophet, Al Gore, assured us the arctic ice would gone by around 2000 and fish would be swimming in the streets of Miami.

 

If all this didn’t finish us off there was Y2K and the end of the world as we know it.  (Eerily reminiscent of the millennial panic about the year 1000 AD.) 

 

Hey, but this time it’s different!

[Nparker]

And let's not forget Soylent Green was set in 2022.

[Mike K.]

Always something.

Now it has been ratcheted up so high, the fear machine, that we need people monitoring youth who could be exhibiting tendencies towards suicide because they’ve lost all hope for a productive future.