>When meritocrats and technocrats fail to seize power, extinction ensues. I'm curious to see how your sample size for that statement is anything other than 0.

>When meritocrats and technocrats fail to seize power, extinction ensues. I'm curious to see how your sample size for that statement is anything other than 0. >The oligarchs of the world have more than enough money to fix all the climate issues, but since they derive their wealth from exploiting the climate, there is no hope for a fix from them. There's a huge disconnect here. The wealthy of the world do not have massive piles of cash sitting around with which they can use to change all of society to value the environment. The majority of their wealth is in assets...companies, properties, relationships etc. The value exists in those assets because of a huge underlying social structure that supports that value. You allude to it when you say "since they derive their wealth from X." That wealth is mobilized only through structures that permeate and are supported by most of human society. It's easy to point our fingers at wealthy people and blame them for not fixing the world, but the reality is that they are merely figureheads for the global trends of our collective decisions. You want the top of a pyramid to touch another point in the sky, because it is clearly the tallest and has reach, but you want it to do so without moving the entire supporting pyramid base. It's not going to happen. The change has to be grass roots, only then will the wealth of the world represent different collective decisions. The only alternative to grass roots change is authoritarianism...by forcing society to change through state sponsored violence. But at least here in America, you will find that that will not work out so well for you.