{"id":11678,"date":"2013-02-24T12:21:52","date_gmt":"2013-02-24T16:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/?p=11678"},"modified":"2013-02-24T12:21:52","modified_gmt":"2013-02-24T16:21:52","slug":"national-wildlife-federation-climate-change-causing-mental-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/2013\/02\/24\/national-wildlife-federation-climate-change-causing-mental-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"National Wildlife Federation: Climate Change Causing &#8220;Mental Illness&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Psychological Effects of Global Warming on the United States: And Why the U.S. Mental Health Care System Is Not Adequately Prepared&#8221; by Kevin J. Coyle, JD and Lise Van Susteren, MD, National Wildlife Federation Climate education Program With Support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Copyright \u00a9 2011 National Wildlife Federation is a bizarre 60-page document that asserts the urgency of climate change and its effects will put a strain on the mental health system.<\/p>\n<p>While we have heard outrageous claims that those who do NOT believe that climate change is as urgent as it is said to be are &#8216;mentally ill&#8217;, we have never heard that climate change itself is causing mental illness as claimed in this document.<\/p>\n<p><strong>As expected it contains all the usual memes and buzzwords: &#8220;suicide, social justice, child abuse&#8221; and the worst assertion we&#8217;ve hear yet, that &#8220;poor people need professionals and the mental health care community to help them voice their outrage.&#8221; [p34]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Whew.<\/p>\n<p>Read the report here: <a href=\"http:\/\/nofrakkingconsensus.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/psych_effects_climate_change_full_3_23.pdf\">&#8220;The Psychological Effects of Global Warming on the United States: And Why the U.S. Mental Health Care System Is Not Adequately Prepared&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Psychological Effects of Global Warming on the United States: And Why the U.S. Mental Health Care System Is Not Adequately Prepared&#8221; by Kevin J. Coyle, JD and Lise Van Susteren, MD, National Wildlife Federation Climate education Program With Support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Copyright \u00a9 2011 National Wildlife Federation is a bizarre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internationalism","category-news","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11679,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11678\/revisions\/11679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}