[lit-ideas] Re: Global Warming Hysteria
- From: carolkir@xxxxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 16:43:37 -0700
It's 111 degrees today. I'm too hot for hysteria. The whole world is
too friggin hot, and depression is a perfectly adaptive, logical
response to the situation. Always has been, come to think of it. We
just have to sweat it out.
Carol
On 7/9/08, Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The article below was in a sidebar at Drudge. It only makes sense that
> some real cases of "global warming hysteria" would develop. Now if
> someone claims you are "hysterical about global warming," you can judge
> their remark against a psychiatric benchmark. Surefooted, we can
> confidently separate the real from the rhetorical hysterics. -EY
>
>
> full story at:
> http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23991257-25717,00.html
>
> Doomed to a fatal delusion over climate change
> Andrew Bolt
>
>
> PSYCHIATRISTS have detected the first case of "climate change delusion"
> - and they haven't even yet got to Kevin Rudd and his global warming guru.
>
> Writing in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, Joshua
> Wolf and Robert Salo of our Royal Children's Hospital say this delusion
> was a "previously unreported phenomenon".
>
> "A 17-year-old man was referred to the inpatient psychiatric unit at
> Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne with an eight-month history of
> depressed mood . . . He also . . . had visions of apocalyptic events."
>
> <snip>
>
> "The patient had also developed the belief that, due to climate change,
> his own water consumption could lead within days to the deaths of
> millions of people through exhaustion of water supplies."
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