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#REDIRECT [[Effects of climate change on human health#Mental health]]
'''Climate psychosis''' or '''climate hysteria'''<ref>{{cite news |last1=Anthes |first1=Emily |title=Climate change takes a mental toll |url=http://archive.boston.com/lifestyle/green/articles/2009/02/09/climate_change_takes_a_mental_toll/ |work=Boston.com |issue=The Australian doctors wrote the case up as the first known instance of "climate change delusion." |date=9 February 2009}}</ref> is a term used to describe irrational hysteria, delusions, anxiety, psychotic tendencies or depression<ref>{{cite news |last1=Marshall |first1=Konrad |title=A climate of despair |url=https://www.theage.com.au/national/a-climate-of-despair-20140811-102r1w.html |work=The Age |issue=Frustrated green scientists and environmental activists may be at risk of depression. Konrad Marshall meets the experts and advocates shedding light on the intersection of climate change and mental health. |date=13 August 2014 |language=en}}</ref> related to environmental or climate changes. The first was case was discovered by Australian psychiatrists in 2008 where a patient refused to drink water because he felt guilty about the effect it might have on the planet. The patient thought millions of people could die<ref>{{cite news |last1=Malkin |first1=Bonnie |title=Psychiatrists discover first case of climate change delusion |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/earthnews/3346988/Psychiatrists-discover-first-case-of-climate-change-delusion.html |date=11 July 2008}}</ref>. In Sweden, there are small businesses of "climate psychologists" where parents pay for therapy related to climate anxiety<ref>{{cite web |title=Klimatpsykologerna (Climate Psychologists) |url=https://www.klimatpsykologerna.se/ |website=Klimatpsykologerna}}</ref>. There has also been articles of "eco-terrorism"<ref>{{cite news |title=Climate change extremists plot drone attack to shut down Heathrow |url= |work=Mail Online |date=10 August 2019}}</ref>. In Sweden, [[Greta Thunberg]] was reported to have suffered from depression because of climate change<ref>{{cite news |title=Depressed and Then Diagnosed With Autism, Greta Thunberg Explains Why Hope Cannot Save Planet But Bold Climate Action Still Can |url=https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/12/19/depressed-and-then-diagnosed-autism-greta-thunberg-explains-why-hope-cannot-save |work=Common Dreams |issue=Depressed and Then Diagnosed With Autism, Greta Thunberg Explains Why Hope Cannot Save Planet But Bold Climate Action Still Can |language=en}}</ref>.
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== United States ==
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Bjorn Lomborg of the New York Post wrote an article of "psuedo-scientific hysteria" on the subject of climate change<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lomborg |first1=Bjorn |title=Pseudo scientific hysteria is the wrong answer to climate change |url=https://nypost.com/2019/08/02/pseudo-scientific-hysteria-is-the-wrong-answer-to-climate-change/ |work=New York Post |date=3 August 2019 |language=en}}</ref>. Joe Bastardi wrote that the climate change debate was run by political hysteria and fear-mongering<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bastardi |first1=Joe |title=Joe Bastardi: Climate change agenda is being driven by hysteria, not facts |url=https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/joe-bastardi-climate-change-agenda-is-being-driven-by-hysteria-not-facts |work=Fox News |date=1 April 2019}}</ref>. Matt Peterson of Fox News called the climate change debate the "most widespread hysteria in our societys history"<ref>{{cite news |last1=Patterson |first1=Matt |title=Global warming -- the great delusion |url=https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/global-warming-the-great-delusion |work=Fox News |date=12 March 2015}}</ref>.
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== Sweden ==
Lennart Bengtsson, international climate researcher, has stated that the climate hysteria is exaggerated. Maximilian Krah, an AfD candidate for the EU elections, called Greta Thunbergs climate alarmism for a “psychosis”<ref>{{cite news |last1=Connolly |first1=Kate |title=Germany’s AfD turns on Greta Thunberg as it embraces climate denial |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/14/germanys-afd-attacks-greta-thunberg-as-it-embraces-climate-denial |work=The Guardian |date=14 May 2019}}</ref>. A Swedish book titled "Skärgård" form 2010 warned that climate hysteria threatened the welfare<ref>{{cite book |title=Skärgård |date=2010 |publisher=Skärgårdsinstitutet vid Åbo Akademi |___location=University of California |pages=2-3 |url=https://books.google.se/books?id=AxxSAQAAMAAJ&q=klimathysteri&dq=klimathysteri&hl=sv&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjS6KLowfvjAhVyiYsKHa6IAh4Q6AEIKTAA |language=sv}}</ref>. Swedish reporter Alrik Söderlin published an article in the MestMotor where he stated that "Sweden is in a climate psychosis"<ref>{{cite news |last1=Söderlind |first1=Alrik |title=Alrik Söderlind: "Sverige har hamnat i klimatpsykos" |url=https://www.mestmotor.se/automotorsport/artiklar/kronikor/20190408/alrik-soderlind-sverige-har-hamnat-i-klimatpsykos/ |accessdate=11 August 2019 |work=auto motor & sport |issue="Sweden has got into climate psychosis" |date=2019 |language=sv}}</ref>. [[Bianca Muratagic]] published an article calling Swedens climate politics for a "Swedish psychosis" stating that the Swedish politicians used the climate debate to cover up more serious issues<ref>{{cite news |last1=Janouch |first1=Katerina |title="Klimatpsykosen är till för att distrahera medborgarna från det kaos politikerna skapat" |url=http://katerinamagasin.se/klimatpsykosen-ar-till-att-distrahera-medborgarna-fran-det-kaos-politikerna-skapat/ |work=Katerina Magasin |issue="Climate psychosis is designed to distract citizens from the chaos politicians have created" |date=4 May 2019}}</ref>. Klimatupplysningen, a Swedish climate-change skeptic movement, write in one of their articles that the climate change hysteria is used as an excuse to increase taxes<ref>{{cite news |title="Det goda folket" |url=http://www.klimatupplysningen.se/2010/01/28/det-goda-folket/ |work=Stockholmsinitiativet - Klimatupplysningen |issue=These people, "the good people," live by being visible and building on their personal brands. Without the attention of these performances, crown princes and crown princesses would not be kings and queens and Bono would not make as much money on his artistry. Raising money for Haiti and exploiting the climate psychosis is simply a necessary activity to nurture the brand of "the good people". The problem now is that the climate wave seems to be able to grow into a "tsunami" that erases rather than builds up personal brands. So some caution with contradictory statements would probably be wise. |date=28 January 2010 |language=sv-SE}}</ref>. Tomas Klasson published an article discussing a climate change conference where the Swedish forest fires was associated to a "pre-apocalyptic climate change psychosis"<ref>{{cite book |last1=Klason |first1=Tomas |title=A Confused Conference followed by paranoia and climate anxiety |date=2019 |publisher=Projekt27 |edition=The week after COFI, it started to burn in Sweden and it burned in almost one month. Sweden underwent something that most resembles a pre-acopalyptic climate psychosis. Chronicle after Chronicle sharpened his pencils in the struggle to write the most hit article about how we must act now, and even socializing went in clinch over sharing the same. I followed everything over the net. It became like an obsession, where I went from being annoyed at how people perceive this only now, to a sense of shame, when I first understood the week before. |url=https://www.projekt27.nu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/En-F%c3%b6rvirrad-Konferens-3-nytt-slut.pdf}}</ref>. Columnist Madeleine Lilja Rönnquist of ProjektSanning wrote an article of "climate change hysteria"<ref>{{cite news |last1=Liljeqvist |first1=Madeleine |title=Hur mår egentligen Sverige? Går utvecklingen verkligen åt rätt håll? |url=https://www.fornuft.se/kronikor/hur-mar-egentligen-sverige-gar-utvecklingen-verkligen-at-ratt-hall/ |work=Oberoende Förnuft |date=27 June 2019 |language=sv-SE}}</ref>. Oscar Askling of the paper NKP published an article criticizing the Green Party of Sweden for "climate hysteria"<ref>{{cite news |title=Om klimathysteri |url=https://www.nkp.se/2019/02/27/om-klimathysteri/ |work=Nya Kristinehamns-Posten |language=sv}}</ref>. Västerbotten Tidningen criticized Swedish mass media for creating a climate hysteria<ref>{{cite news |last1=Västerbotten Kuriren |first1=Västerbotten Kuriren |title=Swedish Mass Media creates Climate Hysteria |url=https://www.vk.se/2018-09-12/massmedia-skapar-klimathysteri |accessdate=11 August 2019 |agency=Västerbotten Kuriren |issue=How could the media succeed in creating global climate hysteria with the belief that it is man who is causing global climate change? Throughout my working life, I explained to my students that the Earth's climate has constantly changed during all geological events due to ongoing geological processes such as plate movements, volcanism, variations in solar radiation intensity depending on the ___location of the planets and more. |date=2018}}</ref>. Jan Tullberg, associate professor of political science and columnist at Nya Tider, writes of the climate change hysteria as mainstream medias new policy<ref>{{cite news |last1=Tullberg |first1=Jan |title=Varför klimathysteri? |url=https://samnytt.se/varfor-klimathysteri/ |accessdate=11 August 2019 |work=Samhällsnytt |issue=A new issue is now being launched hard by all regime media: climate, climate, climate. In the past, everyone was somewhat knowledgeable that climate was a bigger issue than the weather. But now the hot summer in Sweden is being upgraded to a climate change. The climate threat advocates also take to chest tones over being called "climate alarmists". But people who call their opponents "climate deniers", though no one denies the existence of climate, have no right to be offended by words that are not even skymford, but a true descriptive cover. |date=28 August 2018 |language=sv-SE}}</ref>. Gunnar Lundström of Skövde Nyheter stated that the climate hysteria in Sweden had completely gone out of control<ref>{{cite news |title=Klimatfrågan har nått horribla höjder |url=https://www.skovdenyheter.se/article/klimatfragan-har-natt-horribla-hojder/ |work=Skövde Nyheter |issue=Now the climate hysteria has reached completely horrendous heights - schoolchildren strike at school for nothing to do with the climate! This is the result after all politicians claim to be able to change the climate. But when all aspects are taken into account, the Earth's climate is far more complicated than one might think. |date=5 September 2018}}</ref>. Stockholmsinitiativet criticized [[Dagens Nyheter]] for spreading "climate hysteria" and "mass psychosis"<ref>{{cite book |last1=Anshelm |first1=Jonas |last2=Hultman |first2=Martin |title=Discourses of Global Climate Change: Apocalyptic framing and political antagonisms |date=2014 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781317671060 |page=108, 151 |url=https://books.google.se/books?id=UE9WBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA108&lpg=PA108&dq=climate+hysteria+psychosis&source=bl&ots=OC6xIrvWIM&sig=ACfU3U2xjo0ZcCJYz58W3alj4ZxpUy5bGQ&hl=sv&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj7vJ3azfvjAhVl_CoKHSIHBHUQ6AEwC3oECAYQAQ#v=onepage&q=climate%20hysteria%20psychosis&f=false |language=en}}</ref>.
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