If the proportionally tiny amounts of anthropogenic CO2 are really that big a factor we are already sunk.
I'm starting to wonder if there's an unconscious death cult in the developed world that fetishizes planetary doom. That is the logical endpoint for the nihilism that has overtaken developed countries.
"By 2021, 90% of islands in the Maldives experienced severe erosion, 97% of the country no longer had fresh groundwater, and more than 50% of the national budget was being spent on efforts to adapt to the effects of climate change" [1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_in_the_Maldives
Maldives are already lost due to our actions, it just will take quite a few decades to materialize. The current actions will determine how large the change will be, nobody is really discussing ways to stop or prevent it (the time for that was in the last century), the discussion now is about limiting the growth of the change.
But I agree there is also a lot of unnessary fear mongering and accusations at ordinary people and doomsdayism.
I hope what is essentially a positive thing (wanting sustainability) doesn't get overtaken and misused by fanaticism or people with other agendas.
Like what?!? is this person's mental model such that they would think/utter such a thing. Breaks my mental model.
Some people really can't understand that. They see the works as two sides, good vs evil, themselves having chosen good.
No. It is just plain propaganda. People who are afraid are much easier to manipulate. That's all.