My personal favourite was the "heat apocalypse" we had a couple of years back when it was a bit hot.
Can't say I fully understand the science behind global warning, but many of the measures in place make no sense to me, point out the UK is responsible for less than 1% of co2 emissions and people claim its a global issue, yet are thrilled about forcing heavy industry east, where environmental controls are less restrictive.
The premature end date on ICE cars, that seems to have inadvertently impacted EV's and failing to recognise keeping a little old petrol car running for longer is the most eco friendly option for some.
Our local dump, changed to a waste management centre recently, gone was the ability to scavenge and re use, everything now gets sorted and from what I can see most goes to landfill or gets incinerated. Only metal seems to get recycled, and that was always possible by going to the scrap man.
On the subject of recycling plants, seems a huge amount of unexplained fires, almost as if some nefarious people are charging a small fortune to collect waste, then it 'accidentally' catches fire, before the expensive recycling bit.
The path we are on is going to make people poorer and have little impact, its all about optics...... and money. Improving the environment seems to take a back seat.