Bill McKibben: the troll has reduced our slim chances of avoiding global heating disaster, but they are not zero. We must not give up.

In addition, our efforts now might reduce somewhat the scope of the disaster even if it is too late to avoid it. Maybe half a billion humans could survive this century instead of a hundred million. Maybe we could keep technological civilization going.

American plutocrats hope to survive that disaster in New Zealand. They think they can condemn the world to disaster and protect their own families from the consequences.

If they knew today that they could not succeed at this, because the dying masses would drag them back to share in those consequences, they might change their plans and prevent the disaster.