I suppose you could go that route to reassure. I'm reading this as in "It only seems like most people don't care about the climate".
You'd probably need to follow up with the numbers in regards to public support of a policy, how our elected officials address those desires of the constituency, and then corresponding policy changes.
And then, you can play some Carsie Blanton for them.
The better half downloads audiobooks from YouTube when on wifi, for offline listening.
I like downloading slow TV, so I don't have to worry about streaming it, of I want to sleep to it or something.
Ray Porter (the narrator of this one and the Martian) is a freaking treasure. Easily the best I've stumbled across.
The apostate thing won't always work. It requires a couple of steps. The terminology you want to use is to say "I'm DF'd" or "I'm disfellowshipped". That means they are not actually allowed to talk to you. They won't even say okay, they just leave. Works 100% of the time IME.
Source: I'm disfellowshipped.
Looks like they stopped dev in '21, but RockBox is what I used to use. Amazing software.