There is no such curse.

Illinois farmland is already pretty depleted from growing corn for so many decades. This will deplete soils even faster.

I'd love it if things could stop exactly where they currently are. Unfortunately, they won't.

I think Budha taught his disciples that you should not accept anything,even what I tell you, if it doesn't resonate with your own experience.

So it's kinda understandable when someone looks outside and sees their weather get milder and more peasant and says "well I hear a lot of bad stuff but I see good stuff"

Not saying that's correct but it's understandable.

The other thing that I think has done a disservice to credibility is the blaming of too many things on climate change that are sort of blatantly unrelated. So someone goes "ok, I don't experience the bad stuff and I can plainly tell that at least some of what I hear is not accurate, so I am going to discount it all and go with my experience"

That's highly subjective but I can't say it's a suboptimal strategy to anything else.