The arrest of Carice van Houten during the climate protest on the A12 yesterday caused some hilarity among the SBS 6 stars of the Shownieuws program. “Climate Psychologist?!”
Carice van Houten recently started as a climate activist. She is suddenly very concerned about global warming. “I recently visited a climate psychologist,” she recently told NRC. “I’m navigating in my group of friends: who can I tell my story to, and who’s going to think I’m a crazy wappie?”
Bouncy castle
The climate stress has taken a lot of hold on Carice. She is also concerned about her little boy. “Yesterday he was talking about his birthday in August. He said he wanted to celebrate outside, with a bouncy castle.”
She continues: “Then I just think that summer is going to be extremely hot and how to tell him it might be getting too hot for a bouncy castle in the garden. I want to get him ready somehow, but I don’t want to scare him.”
Climate psychologist
Now Carice has been arrested at a climate protest on a highway. Shownieuws host Manuel Venderbos: “But, I say a bit cynically: she also gets professional help for this?”
Ronald Molendijk: “Whoa, whoa, whoa, what for? Before being arrested?”
Anouk Smulders: “No, she has a climate psychologist, she announced two weeks ago.”
It leads to laughter in the studio. William Rutten: “A climate psychologist?!”
Anouk: “I also had to look it up.”
How can I make this…
Manuel a little later: “We just laughed a bit about it, but she really cares?”
Dan Ronald: “It could also be my somewhat cynical nature, but why does it have to be about her? How can I make this about me, with: I’m standing here! You can also just protest, you can also just stop filling up with petrol, you can also just ask for attention.”
William: “It’s media attention. You can’t deny that. We are talking about it now.”
Revenue model
Ronald: “But it kind of ignores the message why you are standing there, isn’t it? And a climate psychologist? You have no experience with a climate psychologist?”
Anouk: “No, I don’t think anyone is here at the table either.”
William: “It’s a good revenue model.”
Anouk: “What I understand from it is that she really likes this. There are plenty of people who think she’s a wappie. Then she likes to talk about this with someone in neutral territory.”
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Carice is apprehended: