His estimates are based on “burning all fossil fuels on earth leading to a 16 degree rise in temperature.” By his reasoning, if all we do is figure out how to

His estimates are based on “burning all fossil fuels on earth leading to a 16 degree rise in temperature.” By his reasoning, if all we do is figure out how to grow enough crops by 2050, this disaster will be mostly averted. This seems trivially easy if the alternative is total societal collapse and the death of all mankind. Once it’s in rich people’s best interest to fix the problem, it’ll get fixed. Rich people don’t want to get eaten in the apocalypse, and total societal collapse would hit the richest the worst (most to lose when money is meaningless). By rich, I am not just talking about Billionaires. Americans earning a median wage are rich by global standards. Not convincing at all.