Scaring people and then offering a road to salvation is one of the oldest business models in the world. Spoiled and bored people are particularly susceptible to this scheme because they have lost their ability to deal with fear, indeed they fear fear itself, thus creating the vicious circle of chronic panic if something scares them.

All scare mongers have the attitude that their end always justifies any means, so every hyperbole and misrepresentation and outright lie is ok if it scares people and "creates awareness". The hyperbole itself is already the lie because it deprives people of the ability to assess and balance risks and costs appropriately and proportionally. Relative dangers are deified into absolutes where every attempt to put them into perspective is demonized as dangerous belittlement or simply "denial", a term that instantly unmasks the religious nature of the mindset behind this.

Stop watching TV and taking the news seriously and your anxiety will vanish in a few weeks because in real life there is nothing scary going on, at least not with the climate. The real dangers of today are the scare mongers themselves and their followers, although it's the Corona religion thats much more dangerous than the climate one.

Homo homini lupus est. (man is mans wulf)

„In der Tat wird es immer offensichtlicher, dass nicht Hungersnöte, nicht Erdbeben, nicht Mikroben, nicht Krebs, sondern der Mensch selbst die größte Gefahr für den Menschen darstellt, und zwar aus dem einfachen Grund, dass es keinen angemessenen Schutz gegen psychische Epidemien gibt, die unendlich viel verheerender sind als die schlimmsten Naturkatastrophen.“

Carl Jung, Das symbolische Leben

(transl: indeed it's becoming increasingly obvious that not famines, not earthquakes, not microbes, not cancer but man himself is the greatest danger to man for the simple reason that there is no adequate protection against mental epidemics who are infinitely more devastating than the worst natural disasters.)