What am I proposing to change the mindset of masses around climate change, you ask. I do not want to bifurcate the topic here by unpacking the world view encapsulate in this (Its not that it is all wrong or such, but it is hardly so simple). However, I want to pick out from this the concept that "masses are to be manipulated for their own good by the enlightened elites" as a appalling one, and particularly harmful to the way to further advance us in socio-politico-economic phase-space into the future.

What is not the way is to brainwash children with dogma (for dogma drilling necessarily stalls the exact conceptual, systemic thinking we need to better our civilization), no matter how hype or valuable it is perceived to be at a given time. To instill framework of us vs them, or in/out of group dynamics, false sense of understanding, and at the same time extracting populace's allegiance to the "state" to save the day is pathological. What to do next cannot be spelled out in a comment section, and in any case it is input into a debate anyway. However, putting intellectual roadblock to such ill-conceived and inherently rotten ideas such as the one in question here is a must.