Weather the storm of mainstream media’s climate change anxiety
If a problem doesn’t exist, mainstream media will create one. They are in the triggering emotions business, after all. People online often site turning off the news for long periods improves their mental health. First, before anything else, mainstream media is a business before deciding how and what news to deliver. What’s worse than creating a problem that doesn’t exist? Making a problem, you have no control over someone else’s fault. Let’s learn how one can weather the storm of mainstream media’s climate change anxiety.
Politics has divided the population so much that small talk could become political discourse. Simply asking someone about the weather was a way to break the uncomfortable silence, to pass the time while you wait for a bus, train, or elevator. Or maybe you wanted to talk with someone of the opposite sex; talking about the weather was a great way. Like most political things, it has ruined our ability to engage healthily. Today, asking someone about the weather could potentially trigger their eco anxiety.
As if mental health issues weren’t enough already. Mainstream media and politicians are anxiety manufacturers for human beings. Both are paid based on your fear and codependency, respectively. Being a reasonable, logical, independent thinker doesn’t make money. A study in 2020 exposed that reliance on emotions promotes more belief in fake news. The more emotional viewers are, the more likely they are to believe the news their viewing to be true. Even if it isn’t true at all. Why are humans so afraid of being wrong about what they feel? That’s a discussion for another day.
The buddha warned and educated us that this world is suffering and unavoidable. We can’t politically educate our way into making a “perfect world,” Everyone living today would be dead by the time the perfect world exists. We can’t vote our way, student loan our way, block traffic, or protest our way out of suffering. Not going to happen. Now that fewer people accept religion and GOD into their lives, we shouldn’t be surprised that mental health and even eco-anxiety exist.
The earth spun 1.59 milli seconds faster and has people worried, and CNBC did an entire article on how people can cope with climate anxiety. Can you guess what the very first thing to do was? Yes, go on a news detox. President Biden has introduced a climate bill that would spend hundreds of billions on various climate change initiatives. Yes, you read that right, hundreds…of billions. The fact that several hundred billion are being spent further validates my Pimpin the earth article on the U.S. becoming a type 4 civilization will destroy us.
In conclusion, people are so distracted by their phones and the internet that they can’t remember what they did a few hours ago. So how can we keep track of weather patterns from years ago? We won’t we will just allow the news to think for us and tell us how to think. Without even questioning it. By the way. Do you know how everyone says it doesn’t snow like it used to? Well, it doesn’t. It snows more. According to NASA, “Since 1980, the total snow coverage around the world has gone up by 3.3 percent”. Nothing like a bitter truth pill for Eco anxiety, right?