SIX months ago, I wrote in TCW about an airline pilot who suffered from so-called eco-anxiety. He was in mental turmoil because he thought every flight he made was destroying the planet and finally he quit.
The story, told on the Guardian website, was a startling example of how obsession with non-existent ‘global warming’ has infiltrated and poisoned the minds of presumably intelligent people.
Now the Guardian brings us an even more extreme case – a woman who aborted her child because she was ‘wrought with an intense fear for the future and the impact of the climate crisis’.
The 37-year-old, who already had two children, wrote to the paper’s agony aunt, Annalisa Barbieri, asking how she could come to terms with what she had done. She said: ‘I’ve always cared about the climate crisis, and since after having kids, and knowing it will affect their lives more than mine, I became motivated to make changes. We live a very “green” life.
‘I know how lucky I am to have two healthy children, but I longed for a third. I still can’t believe how fast my two are growing – many of my friends still have lots of time to enjoy with their toddlers. However, fears for the future and the impact on the planet left me consumed with indecision. I had counselling, which helped. My husband has always been content with two but happy to have a third if I wanted, so we tried. I got pregnant. Within a week I was wrought with an intense fear for the future and the impact of the climate crisis. I spoke to some friends, and at length to my husband, and had a termination.
‘Initially I felt relief, then devastation at what I had done. With the help of antidepressants and counselling I felt more on an even keel, but never at peace. After a year, I still felt sadness and regret, so we decided to try again. I became pregnant, and again, as if a switch had been turned, I felt intense anxiety and couldn’t see a positive future. Ultimately, I had a miscarriage.
‘Since then I’ve worked hard at trying to find contentment with my lovely family of four. How can I make sense of what has happened and reach acceptance of what I did?’
The woman clearly has serious mental health problems, so Barbieri asked Dr Joanne Dubley, a consultant medical psychotherapist and psychoanalyst, for her opinion. Dr Dubley offers the woman advice, such as: ‘I think you need to sit down and work out what this means to you in the context of your life history.’ But she does not seem to suggest to her that her climate fears might be entirely and utterly baseless. Quite the contrary. She asks: ‘What was driving you to have a third child? Were you worried about getting old? Did you feel you didn’t get something right the first time? These are ordinary responses to having a baby, but then the climate anxiety hits and that’s the bit that is really interesting, because on some level we should all have climate anxiety. Yet we all walk around with disavowal, dissociation and denial to not see how terrifying it is.’
Of course, the doctor’s assertion that ‘on some level we should all have climate anxiety’ is right on-message with the Guardian, which is manically fused to the global warming fantasy. So no problem there.
But what a sad, tragic tale of our increasingly confused and troubled times this is. Abortion is a controversial and complicated subject, but this woman’s child would have had a loving home and family. It is heartbreaking that it never had the chance. Let’s hope the pushers of the climate myth – the bought and paid-for scientists, the supine media and the millions who slavishly ape the cult of Thunberg and the rest of the neurotic, fanatical grifters – are happy with themselves.
