In B.C., ER doctor says patients are attempting suicide over climate anxiety

[NearlyIrrelevantCake]

Salmon Arm had been blanketed in wildfire smoke for days. A record heat dome had killed nearly 600 people across the province only weeks earlier.
When the town of Lytton, B.C., set a Canadian temperature record of 49.6 C — a day later burning to the ground — the evacuees added to the steady stream of patients at the Shuswap Lake General Hospital.

Emergency room doctor Lori Adamson remembers stretchers lined up in the hallway. The number of patients suffering heat illness and smoke inhalation meant her unit was running out of available beds and nurses.

Then came the suicides.

"A lot of the youth that I was seeing were attempting to commit suicide because of climate distress," she told Glacier Media.

"They're fearing that they'll never outlive the climate disasters and global warming… they overtly expressed that."

Adamson says at least three young patients she saw tried to end their life through a drug overdose because they feared climate change.

 

[deathbydragon]

Not surprising at all. And if the climate doesn't kill us, the wars over resource shortages will.
I'm not interested in watching the fireworks.

 

[Crazy4u]

I don't blame them at all. I think climate distress is putting it nicely. Natural disasters due to climate are stressful

 

[Al Cappella]

I lived through that. You couldn't see down the street, the smoke was so thick. It was literally snowing ash, little white flecks all over the cars. You could taste it. And where I was was evacuated, so I drove cross country to Toronto.

So yes, fear/anxiety over climate change is very real. It'll be fire season again soon, too…

 

[NearlyIrrelevantCake]

I lived through that. You couldn't see down the street, the smoke was so thick. It was literally snowing ash, little white flecks all over the cars. You could taste it. And where I was was evacuated, so I drove cross country to Toronto.

So yes, fear/anxiety over climate change is very real. It'll be fire season again soon, too…

No fires too close to my part of BC last Summer, but the heat sent me to the ER twice.

 

[SuicidallyCurious]

Climate anxiety is absolutely a huge reason for my CTB. I am very knowledgeable on the subject and know things about it your average person does not

 

[its-about-time]

I'm cracking up a tiny bit, I just read this post half-way through watching the movie The Day After Tomorrow. Yeah, I don't think I would survive long if such extreme climate change was at my doorstep, but I might stick around simply out of morbid curiosity. I see why some people would want to preemptively leave before facing such a thing.

 

[Sunset Limited]

Depending on the climate, food prices doubled in one year in my country. Food quality goes down and prices go up. I think it will soon be a problem to find sunflower oil and olive oil. What is the situation in America, Canada and Europe?

 

[SuicidallyCurious]

Depending on the climate, food prices doubled in one year in my country. Food quality goes down and prices go up. I think it will soon be a problem to find sunflower oil and olive oil. What is the situation in America, Canada and Europe?

I actually watched yesterday on YouTube someone complaining about sunflower oil , and that it was being rationed in their country

prices rising everywhere

 

[Al Cappella]

Depending on the climate, food prices doubled in one year in my country. Food quality goes down and prices go up. I think it will soon be a problem to find sunflower oil and olive oil. What is the situation in America, Canada and Europe?

Prices are going mental, starting with gas. Milk, flour, veggies—forget beef. We're all going to be vegetarians, riding our donkeys through town. And if you're income restricted, there's no way to catch up, ever. It really is brutal atm

 

[SuicidallyCurious]

Prices are going mental, starting with gas. Milk, flour, veggies—forget beef. We're all going to be vegetarians, riding our donkeys through town. And if you're income restricted, there's no way to catch up, ever. It really is brutal atm

That's what happens when you let a certain segment of society run your economy even though it has been known for thousands of years that certain segment will always lead ya to ruin

They're called sociopaths

 

[Al Cappella]

That's what happens when you let a certain segment of society run your economy even though it has been known for thousands of years that certain segment will always lead ya to ruin

They're called sociopaths

There is certainly something to that. Mix in poorly managed globalization, and you end up where we are.

 

[CaramelDragon]

Beautiful British Columbia, where the government entice tourists with wildlife and shoot innocent and peaceful bears in the street. Ash falls down on us almost every summer and we are suffocated by smoke. It is beautiful, but it feels like the epicentre of the end sometimes. I hope to take my life, hanging from a tree in the temperate rainforest a few minutes from my home this week. She is beautiful, I will miss her. Heartbreak has pushed me to leave, but I've cried muchly for the plight of this beautiful province.

 

[Al Cappella]

Beautiful British Columbia, where the government entice tourists with wildlife and shoot innocent and peaceful bears in the street. Ash falls down on us almost every summer and we are suffocated by smoke. It is beautiful, but it feels like the epicentre of the end sometimes. I hope to take my life, hanging from a tree in the temperate rainforest a few minutes from my home this week. She is beautiful, I will miss her. Heartbreak has pushed me to leave, but I've cried muchly for the plight of this beautiful province.

Ya, quit shooting the damn bears already because folks can't manage their garbage properly. Then quit clear cutting the damn forests…it's disgusting, frankly. But yes, it is beautiful, despite all that…

 

[roaming_soul]

Prices are going mental, starting with gas. Milk, flour, veggies—forget beef. We're all going to be vegetarians, riding our donkeys through town. And if you're income restricted, there's no way to catch up, ever. It really is brutal atm

@psnoody you make being a vegetarian sound horendous

 

[CaramelDragon]

Ya, quit shooting the damn bears already because folks can't manage their garbage properly. Then quit clear cutting the damn forests…it's disgusting, frankly. But yes, it is beautiful, despite all that…

I have huge guilt as I run a non-profit advocating for bears and teach bear behaviour. I just can't stay for them, I'm in too much pain.

 

[Al Cappella]

I have huge guilt as I run a non-profit advocating for bears and teach bear behaviour. I just can't stay for them, I'm in too much pain.

I'm sorry to hear you're in so much pain

 

[Sunset Limited]

Prices are going mental, starting with gas. Milk, flour, veggies—forget beef. We're all going to be vegetarians, riding our donkeys through town. And if you're income restricted, there's no way to catch up, ever. It really is brutal atm

It's like madness. In my country, people are in a very bad situation due to despair and financial reasons. I don't think this problem can be solved anytime soon.

 

[Lost Magic]

I watched a short doc about a man trying to grow crops in Iraq but climate change had increased temperatures, provided very little rain and dried up the lake. Suffice to say the crops didn't yield much and he can't farm there anymore. This is happening in other countries in the world, like India. Humans have caused so much harm to the climate so it will be difficult to impossible to reverse it now.