It is certainly prudent to consider that an overall "win" over time may be decoupled from individual circumstances. If we are to overcome climate change as a e

It is certainly prudent to consider that an overall "win" over time may be decoupled from individual circumstances. If we are to overcome climate change as a earth-wide society, it will have to be through collective action of enough people forcing those in power to be "nice" - whether that will happen in a fast and large enough scale - I have my doubts about too. If we aren't systematically nice to a wider swath of people (even if in a self-interested Machevellian, The Prince kind of way), I share concerns about needing to plan for a general decline of civilization.