AcceleratedWallops

I guess I don't see how a NWO would benefit from having to, you know, actually deal with the externalities they produce. And China? Like 90% of the shit China manufactures is plastic -- how would they benefit from the west taking action on climate change?

Instead consider the outcomes of what you called "doomsday" (but actually rather likely) scenario: * Much of South and Central America become uninhabitable. The US strains under the load of dealing with climate refugees and food shortages from crop failure. Canada strains to deal with Americans fleeing north. Basically, Americas = fucked. * The Gulf Stream snaps, making most of Europe much colder than it is currently, again disrupting agriculture and all of the EU economy. * Middle East uninhabitable. * Australia is already mostly uninhabitable, a few more degrees and it'll probably just be on fire all the time. * Islands in Asia go underwater, and the coastal nations get fucked by rising seas. Leaving China as pretty much the only country in Asia, with the exception of... * Russia. That big ole chunk of land the locals refer to as Siberia? Well hello prime and arable farmland.

TLDR Russia and China are the only superpowers, everyone else is fucked. It is very much in their interest to spread climate change denialism and cast doubt on climate science. This just so happens to align with the interests of the megacorps like ExxonMobil, so they play along because they are only loyal to money, not humankind.

And it turns out it's rather easy to spread climate change denialism because it plays nicely with conservatives' natural desire for threats to have agency.

So I think you've been duped.