This piece is an embodiment of a peace-time mindset. All this rationalizing and scheming about how we should divide up resources, and whether a given scheme is

This piece is an embodiment of a peace-time mindset. All this rationalizing and scheming about how we should divide up resources, and whether a given scheme is moral/fair, whatever that means. None of that scheming makes any sense until violence has been factored out of the negotiation by a government. None of it is applicable to dealing with a foreign power. Until you have secured X (the atmosphere in this example) you aren't in a position to talk about how to divide up X. The problem for the citizens of Druidia isn't that they haven't discovered Marxism or UBI. It's that they can't protect their atmosphere from a giant vacuum cleaner.