Comment by boredumb

I think all the alarmist language is doing a massive disservice to environmental concerns for the reason the author is portraying but also a much different reason where a lot of people tend to greet hysterics with absolute doubt and discern. When environmentalists decided instead of having a real public conversation and resorting to what a lot of people perceive as the people screaming on the corner about the end times - they began getting met with people who will disregard everything they say and then decided to double down by labeling people who disregarded them as heretics. If I was more cynical I'd honestly believe that the climate change activists are agit-prop by groups that would be subject to a lot of the more reasonable environmental changes by letting/getting very loud and passionate people to tell middle and lower class people they can't own cars, eat certain meats and have their right to travel impeded in order to get a portion of the population to disregard any environmental legislations.

I guess, a large portion of climate change activists give the same effect as flat-earthers do with some legitimate conspiracy theories but to the people trying to enact straight forward environmental legislations. A sort of, shitting-in-the-pool effect.