The University of East Anglia (UEA) is to offer support sessions to students who cannot cope with…climate change! Students will be offered six two-hour sessions a week where they will undergo group therapy and be instructed in mindfulness techniques.
According to The Telegraph:
The university said that eco-anxiety was a “direct result of the feelings of grief and distress stemming from the knowledge of climate concerns and its psychological impact”.
A UEA spokesman said that “more widespread support for eco-anxiety has been developed in response to local needs in Norfolk, where people are becoming acutely conscious of rising sea levels as local coastal communities experience dramatic coastal erosion”.
The American Psychological Association describes eco-anxiety as “a chronic fear of environmental doom”, which can manifest as mild stress to more severe clinical disorders including depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.
A survey in 2021 found that 95 per cent of 16 to 25-year-olds in 10 countries, including the UK, were worried to some extent about climate change.
Nearly 60 per cent of respondents said they felt “very worried” or “extremely worried”. Researchers found that climate change was associated with negative emotions including being “sad, afraid, anxious, angry and powerless”.
Nearly half of participants said their feelings about climate change encroached on their daily lives.
Six two-hour sessions a week? Twelve frickin hours of therapy? Wtf, right?
The students should come and see me. It’ll take me around twenty minutes to show them that anthropogenic climate change theory is puerile claptrap and that they have nothing to worry about.
I’d tell them to enjoy this time in their lives. It passes by so quickly.
This ain’t a rehearsal.
