Essay by Eric Worrall

?? I had to tell them something that would wake them up.?

To Address Climate Change, This Psychiatrist Goes Where No One Has Gone Before

November 29, 2022
H. Steven Moffic, MD

Psychiatry and inner space?closer than you think.

PSYCHIATRIC VIEWS ON THE DAILY NEWS

In my November 15, 2022, column, ?I SCREAM for More Climate Action!? I bemoaned the slowness of society and psychiatry to help reduce climate change and instability. I asked for creative ways to obtain climate attention. I found one by serendipity.

While writing what became the column ?A Day of Launching Dreams and Nightmares,? I had CNN on in the background. I was catching a bit about someone who was flying balloons around the earth to save fossil fuel. Then he was being interviewed and I stopped writing to listen. To my great surprise, he was also…