It is a utterly disrespectful act - no sympathy.
But - I totally understand their concern.
Like the science that says COVID is bad and will kills lots of people, especially if governments don't do hard lockdowns.
Climate/ Environmental science has been pointing out that we marching toward a catastrophe. Orders of magnitude worse for humans and the planet than COVID if we don't change our ways in an dramatic fashion.
we disregard / don't act to our extreme peril.