Oh shucks, you're right, I guess we'd better just try doing nothing at all instead and hope that works. Or we could "vote" away climate change. Sure, our governments keep ignoring the public in favour of big oil companies, but maybe if we just vote harder they might finally listen to us.
The only period of diminishing atmospheric Co2 concentration in recent history was the COVID lockdown, so halting production and destroying wealth seems to work Β―β \β _β (β γβ )β _β /β Β―
End of civilization would solve the problem for once, but I'm afraid we are not so close. The wealthy will adapt and continue business as usual. Only the poor will suffer.
We donβt want to destroy wealth, we want to harness it to the needs of the masses and the planet, not for mindless dragon gold piling or endless growth.
Wealth is not the problem. Individuals wielding wealth in a way that hurts the rest of us is the problem. Not all rich people are overtly evil. But some are, and acknowledging that seems like as good a place to start with a solution as any.