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Global warming causes mental illness
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http://sify.com/news/scienceandmedicine/fullstory.php?id=14640012
It also causes some people to go into uncontrollable fits of laughter.
It also causes some people to go into uncontrollable fits of laughter.
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Weather is linked to mood hence S.A.D
:yes: Especially as the article was talking about extremes of weather due to global warming. For example those who suffered the trauma of the tsunami or who have the ongoing stress of not having enogh water are more likely to suffer MH problems than if they hadn't got these problems.
I know that it causes generally worse health, due to it being largly pollution caused.
But then again, these days, EVERYTHING is bad for us, so we are told. Next, vitamins will cause AIDS.
I'm not saying that being caught up in some natrual disaster that destroys your home, for example, can't affect you mentally.
Aha clear now, was starting to think you were a cold fish then
There aint no cold fish left with all this warming. You'll be able to pull em out the sea ready cooked soon.
Global warming is just a natural cycle of life, the earth is regenerating its energy again...
as for mental illness....it is just a label put on people who have not followed the social norms of society and has been branded as being mentally ill...
the again who knows?
Again, thousands of reputable doctors/scientists would disagree.
Global warming causes mental illness? Bollocks. The breakdown of the family unit, the fragmentation of our society, increasing loneliness... those are far more convincing reasons for some mental illnesses being found more and more.
I'll make a fortune selling parsley sauce on the beach then.
Is... dare I say... Klintock back?
Meh. Global warming is real, and is natural, but is accelerated by people.
Also Mental Illness is real. Would you say... paedophillia is fine, just not following social norms? what about Alzheimers?
Now now Aladdin, belittling people you don't agree with (fun as it can be) doesn't make them wrong and doesn't make you right.
Besides, global warming seems to have taken a breather over the past year. And apparently oceans are what it's all about, and they haven't warmed for the past 4-5years. Go figure huh?
Did you actually read the article?
It wasn't suggesting that global warming causes all mental illness or anything of the sort. It was merely stating that where an area has been affected by extreme weather and more extreme results of global warming such as having a dought or a tsunami then the local population generally has a higher occurance of mental illness. These events are traumatic events for the people they directly affect. Of course they can affect their mental health.
As for the comments made in this thread about carbon dioxide emissions causing global warming, I don't think anyone can deny that global warming is happening, although there is obviously room for debate about what causes global warming, be it a natural heating of the planet as it goes through its life cycle or a man-made problem. But I don't think the article was attempting to explain where global warming comes from or why it occurs, it was merely explaining one of the effects of it, i.e. increased mental health problems in populations directly affected by the problems associated with global warming.
Are you really a pyschology student? :chin: :eek2:
But not everyone who suffers from economic hardship become depressed, the article seems to suggest there's a direct link between the two which there isn't really.
As for craicjunkie being a psychology student, what's wrong with challenging social conventions?
Whilst there may be some evidence that humans are partly responsible, I think it's very arrogant to assume that we can make a significant impact on this planet's eco-system when there is evidence dating back hundreds of years showing that the climate changes of it's own accord, the UK itself was stuck in a mini-ice age for 500 years until the 19th century, and chances are it'll happen again.
(Just trying to be controversial).
In any case, just because something is eventually going to happen doesn't mean we might as well accelerate the process. That is akin to a man suffering a bad accident and the doctors refusing to save his life, on the basis that in 40 or 50 years he would have died of old age anyway.
Yep, even the Treasury seems to think that global temps will decline up to 2020 based on solar cycles.
Put it this way: there is probably about as much evidence to prove climate change is man made to a significant degree as to whether the Earth is a sphere. That doesn't stop some people still claiming the Earth is flat, just as some claim there is no such thing as man made global warming.
Only I reckon most of the latter do suspect deep down that they are wrong- only they pretend otherwise because it is an issue that affect them directly and goes against their beliefs and ways.
http://0boy.newsvine.com/_news/2008/04/11/1425094-scientists-flesh-out-plans-to-grow-and-sell-test-tube-meat
Where will it all end?