When the public get hooked into an electronic communications system it's all too easy for governments to muscle in and take control.
But we now have the soft control of the morality mob. Before we know it anything outside their "normality" gets shouted down. I mean Brexiteers are being called "fascist" and "Hitlers" yet they all ignore that Hitler was actually only a bit to the right of Stalin. The woman who chose to have sex with her film director boss, yet he has still been hounded out of his job and she's suffered some nasty invective. "Me Too" has many good points but that is off the rails and nobody should be guilty until proven innocent.
We have only one proven way to avoid global warming and that's fundamentally safe (and thereby low cost) nuclear fission power and heat. Yet we constantly have misinformation about bombs, toxic waste, etc. Windmills and solar panels will never be enough and neither will cutting back on energy use**. Recycling needs energy and LOTS of it on demand.
Nuclear fusion is a mere pipe dream and even that has to be shielded as ionising radiation will be emitted. Even if it ever does work it will be too late and too expensive for the poorer countries to afford it.
** Cutting back on energy use suits the Green's Puritan narrative, because the left want everyone under their control. What's better than restricting our energy use. They conveniently forget that the world's poor waste their lives away (especially the women) on menial tasks like laundry washing by hand and manual labour to grow crops.