It's not something that gives the feeling of their being a cause, something that can in part be blamed, in part negotiated with. Climate change is not a deity, so attitudes that proved reasonable when approaching a deity or demon don't make sense when approaching climate change.

In that sense, the despair of the Doomers is in part the despair of the shaman whose traditional medicines and collaborations with his spirits proved useless when modern plagues carried off his neighbours and kin. Forsakenness.

In a different sense the despair of the Doomers is necessary for their anger. They feel anxious in order to produce, feel, and justify their anger. This is another layer of ego, the Sacred Wrath. If they cannot negotiate with and appease the deity, then they want to be the deity.

And thus what climate change – not a deity – becomes is the challenge to become a deity. This "change" is so terrible, so utterly unimaginable, that no man but only a deity can confront it. Thus the Doomers, in their death cult, become the saviours who transcend death and world.

They do this collectively as individually. What appears to outsiders as moralistic snobbery ("My pain is holier than yours") is the attempt to transmute oneself into a deity, like an anorexic who tries to skip life phases and jump directly to the role of the frail and wise elder.

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