No, there were credible academic studies back in 2012 that explained the Arabs Spring revolts by climate change, leaving countryside communities unable to sustain their mode of life.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-conflict-arabspring-idUSKCN1PH23B
Well, I have some difficulties seeing Hamas or even Fatah participating peacefully to a secular Palestinian government. Two states living next to each other remains the only possible solution for at least a hundreds year. But Israel needs to make concessions to Fatah if one wants a chance to have a long enough peace to starts mending the civil society.
Just don’t believe this is anything new. Back in time, people used to seriously believe in faeries, trolls, deamons, angels and other supernatural phenomena.
That’s how you could lead people to carry holy wars and consider serfdom and slavery as natural order of things.
Back in the 80’s, I remember a report from an ethnologist going to Nepal and meeting people who seriously believed that Russians had goat feet.
If anything, the internet has revealed the credulity of the general population, and provides means to fight and contain superstitions of various kinds.
I’m an optimist.
In several European countries, plastic is sorted to be used in incinerators for local heat production.
Sure, it doesn’t count as renewable nor carbon-free energy, but it gets rid of the waste and makes double use of the oil extracted.