It’s not pointless for Deep States.
Folks just have to get it through their thick skulls that climate change policy has as much to do with saving the planet as CoupFlu policy has to do with protecting public health.
Correct.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
- H. L. Mencken
That was written around 100 years ago.