There is a growing awareness throughout the world that the world's rulers do not have the people's and the earth's environmental best interests in mind or heart. It's all over the news, every single day, where the environment is collapsing here in such a way, and collapsing in another area in such a way, and etc. etc. etc. The world's governments ever since the Kyoto protocol in 1998, have all been promising to do something about limiting our destruction of the planet from fossil fuels, only to every year increase in burning more fossil fuels. The public throughout the world is therefore becoming more aware daily that their leaders true intent is to maintain the status quo of fossil fuel use.
Look at the plagues in Revelation 8 & 9, which the Lord in Revelation 9:20 attributes to the love mankind has for the things his hands produce. The things we all love are mostly produced in fossil fuel burning factories.
So today, more and more people being made aware that the increasing problems in our environment are caused by fossil fuels, correlates with those whose knowledge to the truth during these end times increases. These individuals whose knowledge of the truth is increasing are also those who in Revelation 7 and now being sealed with Gods seal of truth, just prior to the commencing plagues in Revelation 8.
Revelation 9:20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: