I wish the destruction brought to the environment by the last 200 or so years had been just a “stub one’s toe” thing.

I’m also highly skeptical of the transformation that took place from “climate change is real, maybe we should do something about it” to “we’re all going to die a because of it!”, all in a matter of a few years at most. I guess that apocalyptic spirit created by the reaction to the last pandemic had to be redirected somewhere.