Most of them probably think they will have died by the time the effects of climate change are great enough to bother them

But they have tend to have children and grandchildren.

or that their money will be enough to insulate themselves from it.

Yes, if there’s a cull, they’ll be on the right end of the scythe.

I have a horrible suspicion that they’ve just drunk the Koolaid - if you only hang around with energy executives who are also denying climate change you either buy into the idea that there isn’t a problem or hand-wave it away by saying some boffin will solve the problem.

It is an enormous task to get the entire world to take coordinated and far reaching action on anything, and some don’t think it’s possible.

It may not be.

Carbon capture and storage or geoengineering just look to be fig leaves that allow Big Carbon to keep rumbling on (why a lot of the argument at COP 28 was over “abatement”). Which feels very short-termist, if they redirected a fraction of the profits (or the money they spend lobbying against green legislation) into building things like solar energy farms across North Africa and the southern states in the US, they could create a future of near limitless profit for themselves. Unfortunately, while the dirty energy companies are fighting any change to their status quo, making any progress will be impossible.