You are correct, but the modern version was the “global warming” scare that was morphed into climate change when the average person realized it was not getting warmer.
This was preceded by the “Coming Ice Age” if mankind does not do something.
Their big victory (and biggest lie) was declaring CO2 as a pollutant. This single and inexplicable court decision by SCOTUS opened the door for them to regulate everything. They can basically regulate all commerce now in the name of saving us from ourselves.
The war on carbon opens the door for them to control just about everything. They are going after “fresh water” also.
The global warming scare exists only in Europe with a lot of wanna be’s in the USA
The chicken littles live mostly in Europe. There are few is any east of Suez where the population is