Umair, your description of the trajectory of Earth’s sixth extinction event is well stated. You say we have 1 degree centigrade of warming in 2022, which is a conservative estimate. We will likely be hitting 2C of warming really quickly (maybe by 2030) as warming accelerates. This kind of rapid heating of Earth globally will wreak havoc across many dimensions of modern civilization—especially the ability to maintain complex systems that support governance, technology, food production and distribution, policing, and so on. Even religious institutions and other groups that require complexity and hierarchy to exist will be in a crisis of failure. Being big and complex will not be a guarantee of survival once 2C of warming happens. With accelerating temperatures the modern age will end and a new age of survival will favor small groups of people who can exist without the complexity and interconnection of supply chains, telecommunications, electrical grids, or the hierarchy of state support. My guess is that the projected collapse is not sitting well with powerful authoritarian and nuclear armed governments that include Putin’s Russia and Xi’s China. My fear is that both Putin and Xi will make reactionary military moves very soon in an effort to narrow where civilization is allowed to exist as they attempt to slow global warming via war and stabilize out of chaos into a new world order that encompasses a radically reduced human population. They may be thinking that to do nothing means certain collapse. So why not try a bold move to reorder the trajectory. Nothing ventured nothing gained.