If you wanna go full Alex Jones, then allow me to awnser: we are looking at a Illuminati civil war.
The elites were winning, yes, but now with Trump and the rise of populism their plans have gotten disrupted. As such they started looking for backup plans and this led to a split. One faction, more traditionalist and calm, wants to keep going as usual and just correct the course as the go. The second want to accelerate it all and just deal with climate change in one play.
So we are seeing Robert Page and Morgan Everett duking it out, with the entire world population as collateral.