Two such things, seemingly – superficially – unrelated are the weaponization of hypochondria (marketed as the "pandemic") and the weaponization of environmentalism (which is itself the weaponization of what was once something benign and even laudable you almost never hear about anymore, that being conservationism).

But they are both the same thing, in terms of their fundamentals.

Each relies on the tactic of exaggerating and distorting a minor thing into a big thing. A catastrophic thing – to use the deliberately hysteric rhetoric of those who insist the  "climate" is "changing."  It is of a piece, fundamentally, with the rhetoric of those who insisted a "pandemic" was on the loose.

Each relies on a kernel of plausible truth to propagate a great deception.Certainly, the "climate" is "changing." It gets warmer sometimes. It gets colder other times. Some years are hotter than others, sometimes for several years in a row. Other years are sometimes wetter. Everyone understands this.