This loss of popular interest is most apparent in younger people in their twenties, a demographic that used to be the bedrock support of the craze. It’s reached the point with them where not only are the antics of the movement ignored, but the more extreme activities are now laughed at. They have lost that demographic and the real problem with that is that the people it’s composed of will within a decade or so start to be the decision makers. Sure, a certain percentage of them have been programmed for life, but not enough of them.

In response, the scoundrel ploy is being used, which in this case is emotional manipulation by resorting to child abuse. Fanatics don’t have any moral floor they can’t drop through or even consider stopping at. They’re basically concentrating on programming the children now. It’s them who’re now being scared to death by end of world horror stories. People have actually started talking up a mental health crisis about climate amongst children, which if it actually ever came about wouldn’t be much of a surprise. When a figure in authority – any adult when you’re a child – does nothing but terrify you out of your childhood idyll by a non-stop stream of scary stories, you can expect some problems downstream.