The UC method aims to correct the situation after scaring Gen Z out of the water.
A fresh course on climate change is available on every campus of the University of California program. The group, called” Building Psychosocial and Planetary Resilience”, starts this flower quarter.
The key to grasping is the fact that it is primarily a psychology course, not an economic knowledge course. The course was designed by a professor of psychiatry and a professor of psychology, according to the Daily Nexus, UC Santa Barbara’s student paper.
The training was created” with the intention of integrating “mindfulness practices” with discussing climate change.
The course site states that the program aims to fill a significant difference in culture knowledge and well-being by drawing on the technology of personal and social resilience and climate change action, creating a sense of belonging, and inspiring empowerment and self-efficacy through meaningful projects.
The course itself consists of small-group discussions led by a awareness teacher and videos of world leaders discussing weather science.
Students will take part in in-person meditation sessions led by training university officials and mindfulness-trained instructors, and attend live UC-wide Zoom lectures, wrote Katie Alegria in the UC San Francisco scholar news outlet the Synapse.
There is information for a number of strategies to help people deal with climate stress, despite the research on the effects of climate distress and health still being conducted. We are well aware of the power of social support and group resilience to deal with anxiety and stress related to weather, she wrote.
UCSB’s Nexus reported:” In- person class sessions may serve to ‘ build shared learning skills, process climate- change- associated distress in a healthy space, and build interpersonal support and community collaboration on individual and collective action, culminating in class climate projects.'”
In other words, the UC system now attempts to remedy the situation by holding a coping class that includes group therapy sessions after scaring the hell out of Gen Z over an exaggerated climate change crisis.
This is not a brand new trend, there’s a branch of psychology called” climate anxiety” that’s emerged in recent years.
We know we’ve told you that the earth is going to implode from all this heat, so let’s get a rough translation of the new course description. And we know we’ve told you that eating meat, building homes, having children, doing pretty much everything, is just making things worse for the planet. We see that you’re scared out of your wits. However, we were merely attempting to arouse policy makers into committing certain choices. You must approach your life a little more sombrely. There wo n’t be that many really terrifying things to happen.
Climate anxiety afflicts most of Gen Z, according to a 2018 Gallup poll, pointing out 70 percent of Americans age 18 to 34 worry about global warming, the polling company reported.
It’s not just the students, either.
Professor Beth Osnes, who teaches theater and environmental studies at the University of Colorado Boulder and occasionally dresses as a butterfly to ease her concerns about climate change, described the helplessness and despair that constitute climate anxiety in a previous College Fix article. She claimed to be “increasingly depressed about the perilous state of our planet” and told a local Colorado news outlet.
” I started to experience that terrible ooze feeling, which is similar to a sickness you experience when you’re depressed.” It was like swallowing crude oil or something”, Osnes was reported as saying.
Of course, the universities could stop all this suffering by including a subject that disagrees with the discussed climate orthodoxies in the curriculum. For instance, last August, more than 1, 600 scientists from across the world signed a statement explaining that there is no global warming crisis, as The College Fix reported at the time.
There is, and always has been, variation in weather, sometimes for long periods of time. But none of it was man made, and the current round of low level warming is not, either. So feeling helpless in face of it is futile, at best.
Unfortunately, the politics of most universities forbid discussion of the other aspects of” the science”. So, it’s probably better for UC students to take this” Psychosocial Resilience” class than to suffer from depression and anxiety, until they shell out big bucks for private therapy.
MORE: A professor at CU Boulder dresses like a butterfly to combat” climate anxiety.”
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