Thank you Mike for writing and sharing your perspectives on our situation regarding global warming and our economic/political power structures. I don't doubt that the wealthy elite want to keep their money and power. And they certainly resist supporting anything like the concept of a commons to keep our planet in a climate range that supports civilization as we know it. And what would collapse look like? In my looking for an example of collapse that has already occurred, Haiti comes to mind. Things are really bad in Haiti. Being rich in a collapsed society like Haiti doesn't get you a whole lot of easy living. At what point in our march to collapse caused by climate disasters do our social and governmental arrangements across the world come to ruin? If the wealthy have to live in worldwide ruin, what then would wealth or power do for anyone? To my way of thinking, it is probable that the elites of the world already know how bad climate change is, and how it will become even worse over the next 10 years. They probably feel trapped in a no-win situation with regards to keeping money and power concentrated to their life goals if the course that is now set with CO2 leads to a Haitian type of collapse worldwide by 2070 or before. So, what can they do? The elites likely see themselves as men and women of action and influence. They can call upon the military to be their spear for disruption. Desperate elites do desperate things, and in that regard I don't rule out that the elites in China, Russia, and the US-Europe are thinking about war as a means to implement change to the current trajectory of climate disaster. China in particular has so much to lose if it does not act militarily. The Chinese leaders are so close to being the dominating world power and having Taiwan reclaimed. Will they just let Climageddon take it all away from them without putting up a fight--as in a real fight with military action? Will Russia support China? Will the US realize that it has already lost the military upper hand we once enjoyed? And now China also leads everyone else in AI, hypersonic weapons, and social engineering. While irrational war would be very dangerous, it's possible that an overconfident elite may think war can be managed as an action plan for change. Will a desperate elite conspire with a cabal of Chinese, Russian, and American military leaders in a coordinated move to reshape the world before Climageddon does the job by Nature's un-sympathetic rules? Will such a vision just be a bad movie, or become our near-term reality?