After hearing this, one person said that the VP was “just making stuff up.”
People on Twitter made fun of Vice President Kamala Harris’s comments about children’s “climate mental health.”
Harris talked about this on Wednesday in Miami Beach, Florida, at the “Aspen Ideas: Climate Conference.”
Harris told the crowd about the young climate activists she has met who worry about how climate change will affect their mental health.
She came up with the term “climate mental health” to describe the problems that activists told her about.
One of the young leaders talked about mental health and climate change, “Harris explains. Where do people your age go and what do they do these days? So I thought I’d ask.
At the young activist’s request, Harris repeated the phrase “Climate mental health.”
She then said, “I think I get that, but please explain it to me.” She also told me what her classmates thought about the issue.
The young woman gave Harris an example to show what she meant: “One example is, you know if they could start a family when they were ready, but they were worried about what that would mean and how stressful it would be.”
The vice president said, “They talked about what they can do and how they can use the education they are getting now in their activism.”
Some people on social media made fun of Harris’s speech, saying that politicians like Harris are to blame for the fact that young people today are worried about climate change.
Delano Squire, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, criticized Harris’s story on Twitter, writing, “How about “climate mental health? Some of the most nervous, neurotic, and self-centered people in the history of the world are in power right now. People like that usually end up at the very back of a group. People in the United States buy them because of how badly they work.
Earth science professor Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki has said that Harris and other climate activists are making young people feel too scared. sent out on Twitter: “People are hurting young people’s mental health in the name of climate alarmism. Because of the doomsday predictions of the alarmists, a lot of my students are afraid to start families. This is what will happen in the long run because people are worried about global warming.
Farrukh Shamsi, a conservative Democrat, used the speech as proof that Senators Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are not fit to lead the country. He put pen to paper and wrote, “There is trouble at the White House. Biden and Harris have both lost the ability to lead.
Travis County GOP Chairman Matt Mackowiak says the group is “crazy and not serious at all.”
Daniel Turner, an activist and the founder of the group Power the Future, which is against green energy, said in an interview about Senator Kamala Harris, “To paraphrase Kamala Harris, “climate mental health” “is very important to her. We should all be worried about the mental health of the people who were working on the Keystone XL pipeline and were suddenly let go.
Steve Guest, a special communications adviser for Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz, says that Vice President Mike Pence is “just making stuff up.”
Reporter Jim Stinson said that the question asked by the young activist in Harris’s story was a major red flag.