Climate change

Climate change is society's apocalypse du jour.

In the Middle Ages, it was The Rapture - come to Jesus or you will perish in flames.

In the 1950's, it was nuclear war - come to capitalism or you will perish in radiation.

Now, it is Climate Change - come to Paris Accord or you will perish in rising oceans.

What is really going on is that many people do not have effective ways of coping with their own anxieties.  By buying into the apocalypse du jour, they get a specific, certain answer to their anxiety.  "Just buy a Tesla and you'll be saved."

Yawn.  Some of us are fine with anxiety.