I had a co-worker whose teen daughter had horrible anxiety about the climate. It was awful to hear about, but all completely caused by the propaganda she was getting at her public schooling in a mid-sized city.
Oddly enough, it made me think of how I felt as a child about the possibility of nuclear war. I really thought the odds were good that I’d die in one before reaching adulthood, and all because of the fear mongering in my city’s public schools (my elementary school had a big “Nuclear Free Zone” sign outside that we walked past every day).
Looking back, the possibility of dying in a nuclear war was probably a million times higher than being harmed by climate change. One was a real and present danger; the other is a fantasy to make the anointed ones huge amounts of money and scare the populace to death to keep the money coming in.
Wait, that sounds like the Military Industrial Complex.
Imagine a time before those things existed, maybe the early 1900s. Of course, you had the very first wide-scale world war looming on the horizon.