Advertising doesn’t seem like a large enough lever. Here’s my take: I think the powers that be are preparing for the emerging non stop cluster-fuck that climate change is going to wreck. They are kneecapping the right to assemble and protest peacefully all over the world, implementing absolute widespread surveillance, despite it being unpopular, so they can track who is who and accessing what information online. We are already experiencing widespread global problems like massive migration due to economic, ecological and geopolitical deterioration just from increased heat, reduced fresh water levels, crop yields and people fighting over what’s left.