Definitions of jeremiad on the Web:
a long and mournful complaint; "a jeremiad against any form of government"
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwnA Jeremiad is a long literary work, usually in prose, but sometimes in poetry, that bitterly laments the state of society and its morals in a serious tone of sustained invective, and always contains a prophecy of its coming downfall.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiad I discovered this word reading many documents about the projected impacts of climate change.