But it's a fact the situation, while serious, was massively overblown and became politicised. We may all be killed by climate change one day, and we need to act

But it's a fact the situation, while serious, was massively overblown and became politicised. We may all be killed by climate change one day, and we need to act now, but we aren't going to die in ten years if nothing changes. Making the situation out to be the end of the world, short term, is how you lose the support of the general public.