Stifling climate anxiety only ignores the problem
If you were on a cruise ship and learned it was sinking, your emotional response would probably be anxiety. The best way to relieve that anxiety would be to acknowledge the danger and proceed to the nearest lifeboat. The worst response would be to plug your ears, go “La, la, la, I can’t hear you” over the captain’s warnings and head to the lido deck for a dip in the pool.
This may seem obvious. But the Trump administration’s approach to relieving anxiety about the increasingly chaotic climate appears to be of the “La, la, la, I can’t hear you” variety. It will only make our climate problem, and the anxiety it engenders, much worse.
The Commerce Department recently ended a partnership between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Princeton University called the Cooperative Institute for Modeling the Earth System. It was doing critical work to help scientists around the world understand how all the different parts of our wildly complex environment interact. Still, killing the program and two others saved the U.S. government a whopping “nearly $4 million,” so: Tough luck, science.
But the Commerce Department’s primary stated rationale for ending the cooperative was that it “promotes exaggerated and implausible climate threats, contributing to a phenomenon known as ‘climate anxiety,’ which has increased significantly among America’s youth.”
https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/comment-stifling-climate-anxiety-only-ignores-the-problem/
Donny thinks he'll be dead and gone by the time the shit hits the fan.