Those fossil fuel companies are trying to invoke the greed in us, but for most people it's not really working with respect to climate change. I won't consider myself an optimist, bu the fact that renewable energy and EVs are growing says that people really do care.

In theory, the "invisible hand of free market" ought to pick out the most innovative and profitable companies, while those who refuse to keep up with the times vanish. But in practice, the legacy companies, despite their business model becoming obsolete, don't want to go away quietly. They spend money to spread misinformation to put down cutting edge technologies and business models, despite growing market demand like green technology.

Even if fossil fuels still has some value, is it really worth it in the long run to extract them and cause mass extinction? Who will be the customers when society collapse? As someone asked before, "what if we improved society for nothing?"