Regarding Don't Look Up's tech billionaire Sir Peter Isherwell (Mark Rylance) attempting to profit from the death comet's rare minerals, I recall Terry Macalister wrote about a real situation involving Royal Dutch Shell. "Shell accused of strategy risking catastrophic climate change" is about "an internal document [that] acknowledged [the effect of] a global temperature rise of 4C" at The Guardian May 17, 2015. Similarly, August 25, 2018, I quoted founding director of Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Hans Joachim Schellnhuber in a video which was removed, "The CEO of Shell once told me 'The climate problem is real but it is completely intractable. You can not solve it. So, let's get rich quick before the world ends, huh?'."
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research was a partner of Noble Prize Summit -- OUR PLANET, OUR FUTURE April 26/27/28, 2021.
To complement fictional urgency of the comet in Don't Look Up, see my July 1, 2021 post "Climate Culling and Healing," about real urgency of Schellnhuber, quoted by Paddy Manning July 9, 2011 in The Sydney Morning Herald. Manning wrote "in a 4 [C] degree warmer world, the population," according to Schellnhuber, has '' … carrying capacity estimates below one billion people." Worldometers.info notes Earth's population is nearly 8 billion so it seems most would die from starvation, war, and heat.
My post noted "Imagine Earth reaches 5 C above 1850 preindustrial baseline 'within 80 years or so at our current trajectory' as noted by Dave Borlace if we don’t cut enough carbon."
I wrote, "If things get near that bad, I propose a 100-question exam designed by 3rd graders in Bangladesh, Nigeria, Haiti, Yemen, The Philippines, Tuvalu, Kiribati, and The Marshall Islands tuned by leading academics so only one eighth of the global population can pass. Everyone else dies. This would be far more equitable than 'politics of the armed lifeboat' described by Amitav Ghosh in The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable."
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