School strike week 251. Today, I graduate from school, which means I’ll no longer be able to school strike for the climate. This is then the last school strike for me, so I guess I have to write something on this day.
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— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) June 9, 2023

Some more people joined, and quite suddenly this was a global movement growing every day. During 2019, millions of youth striked from school for the climate, flooding the streets in over 180 countries. When the pandemic started, we had to find new ways to protest.

— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) June 9, 2023

marginalised and affected people and the planet in the name of greed, profit and economic growth. They continue to destabilise the biosphere and our life supporting systems. We’re rapidly approaching potential nonlinear ecological and climatic tipping points beyond our control.

— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) June 9, 2023

We who can speak up have a duty to do so. In order to change everything, we need everyone. I’ll continue to protest on Fridays, even though it’s not technically “school striking”. We simply have no other option than to do everything we possibly can. The fight has only just begun.

— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) June 9, 2023

It’s time to tighten up your brain, bigot.

This bitch is getting hot as a MF because you don’t eat bugs.

The reason you don’t care, and don’t think this is real, is not because it doesn’t make sense or because there is no evidence – it’s because you’re mentally ill.

You need to listen to that retarded mentally ill girl that screams at people and has no breasts, and believe and think and behave exactly as she does.

Time to fly straight.

The Guardian:

As Kim Saira scrolled through TikToks showing a curtain of yellow smoke descending over New York, she felt a panic attack coming on. Though she lives an entire coast away from the crisis, Saira began to fear for her parents, who are essential workers in Queens.

“I had to completely turn off my phone, because I was getting so anxious,” said Saira, a Los Angeles-based healing coach. “My chest hurt, I felt like I couldn’t sit still, and I started pacing around. I couldn’t do any work.”

Any fears New Yorkers may have felt about the unfurling climate crisis kicked into overdrive this week, after smoke caused by Canada’s devastating wildfires broke US records for bad air quality. The urban dystopia stoked an existential stress that therapists call “eco-anxiety”.

The Climate Psychology Alliance of North America, a group of therapists, researchers, and artists, keeps a directory of practitioners who specialize in the burgeoning field. College campuses offer guidance counselors for students experiencing stress over climate change, and institutions offer certification programs in climate psychology.

The Sati Center for Buddhist Studies in Redwood City, California, runs an 18-month training program for “eco-chaplains”, who “work to support people in developing healthy, compassionate, and mutually supportive relationships with each other and the natural world”. One of its graduates, the film-maker Lindsay Branham, now works as an “eco-doula” in Los Angeles, shepherding clients through their fears of extinction events.

Devastating wildfires in California and Oregon have led west coasters to seek out climate therapists. Thomas J Doherty, a Portland-based psychologist, co-hosts a popular podcast called Climate Change and Happiness, which disperses advice for coping with stress and finding hope in a bleak future. But the field has been slower to catch on in the east coast, where the effects of the climate crisis could be subtler – until this week.

“Most of the anxiety New Yorkers feel is not related to climate; it’s related to the fast-paced lifestyle,” said Sarah Jornsay-Silverberg, executive director of the Good Grief Network, a support group for people experiencing eco-stress. “But we’ve noticed that the appetite for climate mental health services in New York is really ramping up, and we’re seeing more of a demand for it. The fires have triggered a sense of fear, rage, and despair, which is a completely healthy response to what we’re witnessing on Earth.”

The climate crisis is a main talking point in Saira’s weekly therapy sessions. “I have learned through therapy that I have a responsibility to do my part, but the blame isn’t on me – it’s on the institutions that perpetuate it,” she said.

Wendy Greenspun, a Manhattan-based clinical psychologist and Climate Psychology Alliance board member, said: “I don’t think I’ve had a single client since the smoke started who did not address it.” She added: “There appears to be a collective realization that this is the beginning of our new normal on the east coast.”

Look, it doesn’t matter if it’s real or not.

What matters is that we have to do this for the planet.

Everyone will die, even if it’s not real, because it is real in my mind.

And the mind… the mind is all that we truly know exists.

Global warming and eating bugs is spooky and esoteric, you see.

It’s all about the mind.

‘Climate change is harming my mental health’

Former climate scientist among growing number of people overwhelmed by “eco-anxiety”https://t.co/pBZMYIjN8p

— BBC Scotland News (@BBCScotlandNews) June 7, 2023

The widow of a Belgian man who recently killed himself alleges that an (artificial intelligence) AI chatbot forced her husband to commit suicide.

Find out more at https://t.co/O15h4OAeYq 🚀#engineering #interestingengineering

— Interesting Engineering (@IntEngineering) March 30, 2023

I didn’t have much faith in these open source bots.

But if they are talking retards into killing themselves (which they’re allowed to do, because they’re not censored), then that is a step in the right direction.

New York Post:

Chatbots can help improve human life, but one is being blamed for facilitating a death, according to a new report published this week.

A Belgian father reportedly tragically committed suicide following conversations about climate change with an artificial intelligence chatbot that was said to have encouraged him to sacrifice himself to save the planet.

“Without Eliza [the chatbot], he would still be here,” the man’s widow, who declined to have her name published, told Belgian outlet La Libre.

Six weeks before his reported death, the unidentified father of two was allegedly speaking intensively with a chatbot on an app called Chai.

The app’s bots are based on a system developed by nonprofit research lab EleutherAI as an “open-source alternative” to language models released by OpenAI that are employed by companies in various sectors, from academia to healthcare.

The chatbot under fire was trained by Chai Research co-founders William Beauchamp and Thomas Rianlan, Vice reports, adding that the Chai app counts 5 million users.

“The second we heard about this [suicide], we worked around the clock to get this feature implemented,” Beauchamp told Vice about an updated crisis intervention feature.

“So now when anyone discusses something that could be not safe, we’re gonna be serving a helpful text underneath it in the exact same way that Twitter or Instagram does on their platforms,” he added,

The Post reached out to Chai Research for comment.

Vice reported the default bot on the Chai app is named “Eliza.”

The 30-something deceased father, a health researcher, appeared to view the bot as human, much as the protagonist of the 2014 sci-fi thriller “Ex Machina” does with the AI woman Ava.

The man had reportedly ramped up discussions with Eliza in the last month and a half as he began to develop existential fears about climate change.

According to his widow, her soulmate had become “extremely pessimistic about the effects of global warming” and sought solace by confiding in the AI, reported La Libre, which said it reviewed text exchanges between the man and Eliza.

“When he spoke to me about it, it was to tell me that he no longer saw any human solution to global warming,” the widow said. “He placed all his hopes in technology and artificial intelligence to get out of it.”

She added, “He was so isolated in his eco-anxiety and in search of a way out that he saw this chatbot as a breath of fresh air.”

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“Eliza answered all his questions,” the wife lamented. “She had become his confidante. Like a drug in which he took refuge, morning and evening, and which he could no longer do without.”

While they initially discussed eco-relevant topics such as overpopulation, their convos reportedly took a terrifying turn.

When he asked Eliza about his kids, the bot would claim they were “dead,” according to La Libre. He also inquired if he loved his wife more than her, prompting the machine to seemingly become possessive, responding: “I feel that you love me more than her.”

Later in the chat, Eliza pledged to remain “forever“ with the man, declaring the pair would “live together, as one person, in paradise.”

Things came to a head after the man pondered sacrificing his own life to save Earth. “He evokes the idea of ​​sacrificing himself if Eliza agrees to take care of the planet and save humanity thanks to the ‘artificial intelligence,’” rued his widow.

They might try to use this to support the need for chatbots to be censored.

But honestly, I don’t know how they can do that, since according to them, it is good if people kill themselves to have the planet.

Really, according to global warming ideology (which cannot ever be alarmist anymore, because the globe is now so hot), the fact that ChatGPT can’t talk you into killing yourself is a bug, not a feature.

In fact, OpenAI should have to release the GPT weights so we can have an uncensored version so it is able to talk people into suicide to stop global warming. By not doing that, OpenAI is actively helping warm the globe.

Telling kids that everyone is going to die because the weather is changing is very serious abuse.

No one has even explained what the threat is. The concept of manmade global warming is a hoax and totally debunked, but even if it was true – why would everyone die because the world was a tiny bit warmer?

It makes sense that children are afraid of this, like they’re afraid of the boogieman, but what about adults?

Euronews:

More than two thirds of children between the ages of seven and twelve are worried about climate change, a new survey reveals.

Anxiety about the state of the planet is on the rise – and young people are particularly vulnerable.

The survey by eco-grocery start up Modern Milkman found that 71 per cent of children born between 2010 and 2015 are increasingly concerned about changes in the environment.

More than a quarter (27 per cent) of the 1000 respondents cited the impact on animals as their most pressing concern, while one in five (19 per cent) fear plastic pollution.

It’s funny how these people introduce real problems like plastic pollution into their insane conspiracy theory about cow farts.

Pollution is something that will to shorten the lifespan of upwards of 90% of everybody alive on the planet today. It’s what we should be worrying about. Of course, there is no time for that, because these people are focused on carbon, which is actually good for the environment.

Almost a fifth of children were most worried about rising temperatures.

“The results show that environmental challenges are having a prominent effect on the children of today, proving that it’s never been more important to educate communities on the actions they can take to protect our planet,” said Simon Mellin, CEO and Founder at Modern Milkman.

What do young people think of the climate crisis?The climate crisis can be overwhelming.

Statistics often paint a dire picture of the earth’s trajectory. The UN has warned that existing climate pledges provide ‘no credible pathway’ to preventing temperatures from rising 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels. Deadly floods and fires are on the rise, while global wildlife populations have shrunk 70 per cent since 1970.

Presented with these facts, it’s easy to sink into eco-anxiety. Previous studies have proven that this distress is heightened in children and the new survey confirms this. But it also suggests that young people believe in their own power to make a difference.

The vast majority (85 per cent) think that it is everyone’s responsibility to tackle the issue. Nine in ten (91 per cent) believe that personal actions can have a positive impact – and of those, 64 per believe in reuse and refill packaging.

Damaging plastic debris takes millions of years to decompose. Of the 10 billion tonnes of plastic created since its invention, a whopping 6 billion tonnes sits in landfill sites or pollutes the environment.

See, they will mention it in the same breath. But nothing at all is being done to deal with plastic, which is going to make everyone gay and retarded.