This is state sanctioned child abuse. Period.

QuoteA major international study led by Canadian researchers warns that climate anxiety—a growing sense of fear and hopelessness over environmental collapse—is becoming an urgent but under-recognized mental health issue, particularly among youth.

The report, published in Nature Mental Health on Tuesday found that antidepressant use rose by 63 per cent across 20 countries between 2008 and 2019. While the surge is often attributed to growing awareness and treatment of mood disorders, the authors say it also masks emerging stressors like climate-driven psychological distress.

"Climate anxiety is real and increasingly affecting mental health, especially among young people who are deeply worried about the future of the planet," said Dr. Paul Kurdyak, senior author and lead CAMH scientist.

The study references a growing volume of international literature linking eco-anxiety—particularly fear over wildfires, rising temperatures, and biodiversity loss—to increases in anxiety, depression, and trauma symptoms.

Among the countries analyzed, Canada ranked third highest in antidepressant consumption per capita by 2019, behind Iceland and Australia.

At the same time, surveys cited in the report show that more than half of young people in Canada and globally say climate change makes them feel sad, anxious, angry, powerless or guilty.
https://truenorthwire.com/2025/10/canada-ranks-3rd-in-antidepressant-use-driven-by-climate-anxiety-study/

That is another embarrassing Canadian stat.

Kids are not being told there are positives to climate change. Theb world is becoming greener.

QuoteAmong the countries analyzed, Canada ranked third highest in antidepressant consumption per capita by 2019, behind Iceland and Australia.

Not one kid was on antidepressants when I was in high school forty years ago at Kindersley Composite High School.

Quote from: Herman on October 28, 2025, 11:10:35 PMNot one kid was on antidepressants when I was in high school forty years ago at Kindersley Composite High School.

Shame on adults who are responsible for this happening to children.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has just published a report by the 2025 Climate Working Group. The report concludes that carbon dioxide (CO2)-induced warming appears to be less damaging economically than commonly believed, and that aggressive mitigation strategies could be more harmful than beneficial. Additionally, the report finds that US policy actions are expected to have undetectably small direct impacts on the global climate

One of the climate scientists who worked on the report was Steve Koonin who worked in the Obama White House as a climate advisor.

They are all starting to back-pedal because none of their models are panning out. He'll, NYC should be underwater by now based on their hyperbole over the last two decades.

It was bullshit at the beginning of this scam and it's bullshit now.

Quote from: Renegade Quark on Today at 12:53:38 AMThey are all starting to back-pedal because none of their models are panning out. He'll, NYC should be underwater by now based on their hyperbole over the last two decades.

It was bullshit at the beginning of this scam and it's bullshit now.

But they know their sheep will buy right into the next iteration of this scam.

Quote from: Biggie Smiles on Today at 01:01:48 AMBut they know their sheep will buy right into the next iteration of this scam.

That is the pattern. When one prediction and/or climate model does not come to pass make sure you have another one that is at least as dire.

Climate anxiety does not appear to be growing in the US.

CNN data analyst Harry Enten demonstrated that the American people's concern about climate change has remained surprisingly consistent for decades and has even possibly declined in more recent years.

"What are we talking about? Greatly worried about climate. You go all the way back to 1989, it was 35%. 2000, 40%. 2020, 46%. And in 2025, look at that — it's 40%, the same number as we had 25 years ago back in 2000, and then only just five points higher than we had back in 1989. Really we've just seen consistency on this issue," Enten explained.

Enten showed that the number of Americans who see climate change as a top issue is and has been negligible for roughly the past four years. One 2025 poll indicated that just 17% of Democrats believe climate change will make staying in their home area "harder," Enten revealed.

Quote from: Herman on October 28, 2025, 11:10:35 PMNot one kid was on antidepressants when I was in high school forty years ago at Kindersley Composite High School.

You often seem depressed, hey Herman Herm?

Always ranting about the end of the world, Canada falling apart, etc. Seems like the cries of a desperate man.

Maybe you could use antidepressants as a number of your fellow posters (but not all) in this forum.

Quote from: DKG on Today at 07:31:10 AMThat is the pattern. When one prediction and/or climate model does not come to pass make sure you have another one that is at least as dire.

Bill Gates once said humanity must change or perish. Now he claims we'll survive just as elites prepare total surveillance.

For decades, Americans have been told that climate change is an imminent apocalypse — the existential threat that justifies every intrusion into our lives, from banning gas stoves to rationing energy to tracking personal "carbon scores."

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates helped lead that charge. He warned repeatedly that the "climate disaster" would be the greatest crisis humanity would ever face. He invested billions in green technology and demanded the world reach net-zero emissions by 2050 "to avoid catastrophe."

Now, suddenly, he wants everyone to relax: Climate change "will not lead to humanity's demise" after all.

Gates was making less of a scientific statement and more of a strategic pivot. When elites retire a crisis, it's never because the threat is gone — it's because a better one has replaced it. And something else has indeed arrived — something the ruling class finds more useful than fear of the weather.

The same day Gates downshifted the doomsday rhetoric, Amazon announced it would pay warehouse workers $30 an hour — while laying off 30,000 people because artificial intelligence will soon do their jobs.

Climate panic was the warm-up. AI control is the main event.

Jo Jo are you on antidepressants? Are you hiding in them in your man bag so I don't see them.

Are they what is making you completely oblivious to your country's authoritarian slide? Is that why you have no empathy for your countrymen who are hurting?

Sweetie, I can get you into a twelve step program. There is help available. Do not be afraid to reach out for help just because you are in the final years of your life.