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How about just tax the hell out of billionaires and mega millionaires .... force them to make less money on environmentally destructive businesses, it would force them to invest less on oil companies and then use all that money to fund ways to deal with the climate crisis.
By not doing so, anything else is basically just fighting a raging house fire with a squirt gun.
We're gonna need a really big squirt gun!