The alternative is facing the uncomfortable truth that climate change is the aggregate of small decisions made every day by every human, and there is no single action that will address it.
The financial system is based on growth, with the majority of money (97% IIRC) being debts we must repay with interest.
This leads to exponential growth, which is unsustainable in a finite environment (thus overshooting the carrying capacity).
https://futureearth.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/great_acc...
Billionaires are simply skilled players amassing virtual wealth in someone else's computer by extracting existing resources.
To really solve this, we must change the game, diminish ourselves and eliminate the pressures of exponential growth.
And even in a science fiction scenario where we become a type 2 civilization, it's not clear that's a bad thing assuming we can expand to nearby star systems. Robin Hanson's Grabby Alien solution to the Fermi Paradox suggests this is what civilizations will do, and we might as well grab up as much real estate until we come into contact with the other expanding spheres of alien expansion (granted this is very long term).
Growing trees?
