Almost one million Canadians have serious climate anxiety, study suggests (www.cbc.ca)

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The study, published Tuesday in Nature Mental Health, randomly surveyed more than 2,400 Canadians aged 13 or older and categorized them using a climate change anxiety scale developed in the U.S. It asks the extent to which people agree with statements such as "Thinking about climate change makes it difficult for me to sleep" or "I find myself crying because of climate change."

It found that 90 per cent of respondents were concerned about climate change and 68 per cent felt some level of anxiety — something the researchers thought was a normal, healthy response, given the impacts of climate change such as wildfires and extreme heat.

But 2.35 per cent had "clinically relevant" symptoms.

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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 30 points 6 days ago

The greatest change everyone should expect to see in the coming decades from climate change is .... mass migration.

As soon as the heat, flooding, hurricanes in the southern United States get worse, all those people are moving north, first to the northern states and then to Canada. As soon as forest fires get worse and destroy more land and communities, people like me in rural northern Ontario will migrate to cities and towns and to southern Ontario.

If conservatives think immigration is bad now, the future is going to have millions of people moving to places they don't want to go to to be greeted by people who don't want them there.

[-] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

What do you mean? It will be the "right" type of people.

[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 days ago

Migration, hyperinflation and general market disruptions and CONFLICT. When harvests get whacked by flood, heat, droughts, you are going to see food get scarce and skyrocket so high and so fast that nobody alive today will have seen the likes of it.

What happens to markets when there is not enough to go around? First we ration by price, then we ration with violence. Everybody paying attention knows this and has been planning for it.

A perennial favourite a lecture at UBC from Gwynn Dyer, PhD Military Historian, author and journalist promoting his book on the Geopolitics of Climate Change. If you're not anxious, you're not understanding the severity of the situation we are in. Ignorance isn't a valid defence against climate change.

Canadian media always puts a dull face on the danger we are in and loves to put shiny hope on anything it can gets its hands on. They don't want to yell fire in a crowded theatre and cause a panic so everyone sat in the theatre as it burns down around and on them and they never left their seats. As our cities choke on the smoke of the burning boreal forests, the public wonders what will save them.

"Who will save us?" the public screamed as everything they took for granted changed severely and dramatically for the worse.

The scientists replied "It's too late for that, now. We told you how to save yourselves 40 years ago and you didn't bother. Enjoy the shitshow, or don't, whatever".

[-] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Migration will cause war and political extremism will skyrocket. Certainty won't decrease during the next few hundred years and Canada will get invaded is my bet. It'll be an awful time and most of you will still have children.