They have been brutally and forcefully brainwashing children all through K-12 and higher education now for decades beginning in the 1990's.
They have been bent on turning them into climate nags who would admonish their parents for some activity like grilling with charcoal or buying meat from cattle which produce methane, never mind driving the family car which has an internal combustion engine.
This is not an accident.
On the good side, there are many of those brainwashed who have grown fully into adulthood who have heard for decades that the oceans are rising and the world is ending, who after decades of hearing this, looked around and noticed the oceans haven't risen and the world hasn't ended. Those people, even the brainwashed ones, are increasingly accepting they have been sold a bill of goods.
So, in that sense, there is hope.
Unlike this complete loser of an author who finds an "interesting" disconnect in public awareness on climate change, what I find "interesting" is that my whole life, we universally and without exception ridiculed the image of people walking up and down a street wearing a sandwich board "The World Is Ending".
We would sometimes feel pity for them, and even ridicule them. Nobody took them seriously. Nobody. Before the Internet, they became one of the first lasting "memes" that has survived even until this day, as evidenced by this cartoon below:
I found this image below interesting, because here, there was a real threat from Y2K and computer programs, and Time had this on the cover of one of their issues:
What I found interesting is that Time Magazine, one of the most ardent purveyors of the climate hoax, presented that image on the cover of their magazine with respect to Y2K.
(As an aside, even people on this very forum still say it was a scam, but nearly EVERY single IT person I know, and I was one of them, working for over a year or two in advance, participating in weekly meetings with up to forty people or more, looking at vulnerabilities, identifying them, testing to see if they would fail, and implementing changes in software to remediate it. When it came, so many people had worked on it that it was anti-climax because the world didn't go dark. People who think Y2K was a scam are bald-faced idiots who don't know what they are talking about.)
The point is, many of us have looked at the last 30-40 years of these people peddling climate alarmism, saying things like the world is going to end in X years if nothing is done, in exactly the same light that our parents and grandparents looked at those oddballs wearing the sandwich boards saying the world is going to end.
It is hard to maintain credibility when you keep insisting that the world is going to end in X years, and in X years, nothing happens. So they bump it out another X years, saying it will end then. And in X years still nothing happens.
But hey. Suckers are born every minute.