Case in point: most people smart enough to realize climate change is a big problem already do.
Most of the oligarchs that profit from the destruction are quite aware, but either expect to be dead by the time it affects them or get high on their own marketing supply and fantasize about escaping to space ( :my-hero: ) or fantasize about escaping underground (Koch).
Yeah, but if any one of them diverts a useful amount of resources to mitigate global warming the other sharks will turn on them and rip them to pieces instantly. To say nothing of the sharks in Saudi, Russia, and Texas who would instantly become small fish if serious climate mitigation was attempted.
For most of them, they're psychopaths stuck in the prisoner's dilemna with other psychopaths, and they got to the position they're in by always choosing to betray the other prisoner, so they can't trust anyone. And for a lot of them their status as bourgeoisie is intrinsically tied up in setting the planet on fire as quickly as possible. Oil barons, beef barons, lumber barons, all kinds of barons cannot and will not agree to mitigation under any circumstances.
Can't discount the evangelical psychos who explicitly believe that god will either magically prevent anything bad from happening, or will rapture teleport them to heaven so it won't matter.
Most of the oligarchs that profit from the destruction are quite aware, but either expect to be dead by the time it affects them or get high on their own marketing supply and fantasize about escaping to space ( :my-hero: ) or fantasize about escaping underground (Koch).
I think it might also be that competition amongst capitalists has them eating each other so they can't organise to fix anything
Possibly, but they work together at least for their own class interests a lot more than they fight amongst themselves.
Yeah, but if any one of them diverts a useful amount of resources to mitigate global warming the other sharks will turn on them and rip them to pieces instantly. To say nothing of the sharks in Saudi, Russia, and Texas who would instantly become small fish if serious climate mitigation was attempted.
For most of them, they're psychopaths stuck in the prisoner's dilemna with other psychopaths, and they got to the position they're in by always choosing to betray the other prisoner, so they can't trust anyone. And for a lot of them their status as bourgeoisie is intrinsically tied up in setting the planet on fire as quickly as possible. Oil barons, beef barons, lumber barons, all kinds of barons cannot and will not agree to mitigation under any circumstances.
Can't discount the evangelical psychos who explicitly believe that god will either magically prevent anything bad from happening, or will rapture teleport them to heaven so it won't matter.