{"id":3498204,"date":"2023-08-31T09:43:51","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T09:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/?p=3498204"},"modified":"2023-10-12T08:37:41","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T08:37:41","slug":"crazy-town-bonus-baghdad-bob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2023-08-31\/crazy-town-bonus-baghdad-bob\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy Town Bonus Riff. Baghdad Bob Visits Climate Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div><div id=\"buzzsprout-player-13486234\"><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/244372\/13486234-bonus-bagdhad-bob-visits-climate-town.js?container_id=buzzsprout-player-13486234&#038;player=small\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><div class=\"gb-button-wrapper gb-button-wrapper-af35d9a5\">\n<a class=\"gb-button gb-button-736fa41c gb-button-text btn res-btn-blue\" href=\"https:\/\/lnk.to\/crazytownWB\">Listen on your favorite app<\/a>\n\n<a class=\"gb-button gb-button-f8db5292 gb-button-text res-btn-yellow\" href=\"\/crazy-town-podcast\/episodes\">See all episodes<\/a>\n<\/div><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-b18365bc\">\n<p><strong>Show Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>What do Saddam Hussein\u2019s information minister and the <em>Wall Street Journal\u2019s<\/em> editorial board have in common? Hint: it starts with a \u201cd,\u201d ends with \u201cenial,\u201d and isn\u2019t just a river in Egypt. A new and virulent strain of climate denial could be called \u201cdoomer shaming.\u201d Instead of acknowledging how logical it is to be distressed about the state of the climate (and the pitiful worldwide political response), delusional boosters of the status quo would rather belittle people who worry about rising temperatures, wildfires, super-storms, and ecosystem breakdown. Jason, Rob, Asher, and Melody consider how to manage climate anxiety and use it in service of caring for planet Earth.<br><br>Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language.<\/p>\n\n<p>References:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-Ung95ORVUY\">Video<\/a> of Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahhaf, aka Baghdad Bob<\/li>\n\n<li>Allysia Finley wrote this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/climate-change-obsession-is-a-real-mental-disorder-carbon-kids-anxiety-hot-temps-df0050fa\"><em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> op-ed<\/a> titled \u201cClimate Change Obsession Is a Real Mental Disorder\u201d<\/li>\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s44220-023-00059-3\"><em>Nature<\/em> article<\/a> dismissed by Finley<\/li>\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/action\/showPdf?pii=S2542-5196(21)00278-3\"><em>Lancet<\/em> article<\/a> dismissed by Finley<\/li>\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/climate-change-anxiety-mental-health-55198ac6\">Rebuttal<\/a> written by PCI Advisor Leslie Davenport and published in the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/li>\n\n<li>Rebecca Solnit\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/jul\/26\/we-cant-afford-to-be-climate-doomers\">article<\/a> in <em>The Guardian<\/em>, \u201cWe Can\u2019t Afford to Be Climate Doomers.\u201d<\/li>\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/climatecommunication.yale.edu\/publications\/distress-about-climate-change-and-climate-action\/\">Survey<\/a> on climate distress by the Yale Program on Climate Communication<\/li>\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gendread.substack.com\/p\/read-an-er-doctors-essay-on-climate\"><em>Gen Dread<\/em><\/a> newsletter on climate distress<\/li>\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatepsychology.us\/\">Climate Psychology Alliance<\/a><\/li>\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodgriefnetwork.org\/\">Good Grief Network<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason, Rob, Asher, and Melody consider how to manage climate anxiety and use it in service of caring for planet Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128238,"featured_media":3498205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[251744,79718,251746,79720,213535],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3498204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crazy-town","category-environment","category-podcasts","category-society","category-society-featured"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3498204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3498205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3498204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3498204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3498204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}