The left always champions a cause to make the younger population fearful and to join their movement. It’s control through fear. Now it’s climate change where as a generation or two ago it was global warming, acid rain, and the complete opposite calamity, the coming ice age (These shall never be mentioned or brought up by the way. That is forbidden). It’s not until you’re older and wiser that you figure out it was total bunk all along designed to manipulate you, amirite?

The imagine in the original post by simmering frog is doctored.

"As noted by Time itself in 2013, the 2006 image on the right is an authentic cover, but the 1977 image is a doctored version of an 9 April 2007 issue which actually featured an article titled “The Global Warming Survival Guide”:"

Climate change and global warming are one and the same. Just as multiple words can have the same meaning. Part of the reason to call global warming climate change was encompass polar vortexes as we saw in winter of 2019 killing at least 22 people.

Acid rain is real, see the national geographic below. Don't get me wrong, there is plenty to fear from the totalitarian left, communism is the best example. Yet, climate change is real.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-che...oming-ice-age/
https://science.time.com/2013/0...oming-ice-age/
https://www.nationalgeographic....ing/acid-rain/

They also like kids jumping on their laps.

The left has always been about manipulating people for its own totalitarian purposes.