I wonder sometimes if the present age of fear and conspiracy delusion isn’t a collective, social grief reaction to climate change.

Reminds me of Caliban’s War. When faced with a threat, they don’t understand, men start wars. Including disinformation ones.

Kinda fits with the Gaea hypothesis

I wish we had enough cultural cohesion to have such a unified response. I think it's more down to the fragmentation of the modern media under the weight of technology leading to a disparate and polarized populace that cannot agree on a common definition of reality.