Good morning, are you mentally ill yet? If you think the answer is ‘no’, don’t worry: the Government will think of a new form of invented insanity for you to be suffering from any moment now.
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has published a new “Thematic Assessment Report” into what it calls “Climate Change and Mental Health”, implying the prospect of a hypothetical increase in global temperature of two degrees Celsius by the year 2100 will drive you utterly insane, as it already has with Ed Miliband. To prove it, they have the clip-art.
Scary stuff! Just thinking of all those flaming Christmas trees, withered pot-plants, and river-floating houses makes me want to top myself already. Or maybe even kill someone else: yet more UKHSA clip-art demonstrates one possible medical result of climate change is “VIOLENT BEHAVIOUR”. In the past, murderers in the dock made the pathetic excuse that “The Devil made me do it!” Now, they can say “Carbon made me do it!” instead and walk away scot-free.
Besides becoming a murderer, amongst a whole host of other potential psychological malaises, the UKHSA identifies one exciting brand-new eco-fuelled condition for patients to contract in particular: “solastalgia”.
Stranger in a Strange Land
What is this novel disorder? It is the sensation of feeling like a stranger in one’s own homeland, due to massive environmental change taking place there. Coined by environmentalist philosopher Glenn Albrecht in 2003, it plays on the
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I live in Fife and when I look over the Forth to the Lothians I see this giant pin cushion of turbines. Am I suffering from mental health problems because of what our silly Politicians are doing to our once beautiful countryside? —No, but I am BLAZING MAD
First we see the shocking illustration, making us do a double-take, then the brilliant article by Steven Tucker.
Rod Liddle’s experience in London reminds me of the local working man who said that, during the school summer holidays, he and his wife decided to take their young children to visit their own country’s capital city for the first time, to see all the world-famous tourist sights there, which he and his wife had only seen a few times in their own youth. He said they were all shocked by the Third World Takeover of London, and the children asked their dad, “Why are all the men wearing pyjamas?”
He said they all heaved sighs of relief when they finally got on the train to travel back to their little town in the countryside, and didn’t want to visit London ever again.
Before “climate change” the countryside and coastline were not covered in stupid windmills, and farmland was not covered with solar panels. I feel nostalgic for those times.
I dream of a day in the future when re-runs of modern tv shows will be preceded by a warning ‘this programme contains wokism, some viewers may be offended’.
I’m offended when almost every advert prefers minority black actors over majority white.
And yes, some of my best friends are black.
Why would they do that?
Sadism?
One is mostly a mental problem. The other is an actual real life problem.