Yup. They would setup camps and gas the mortals to solve the gods' problems.

You wish.

If I were a sociopathic billionaire I would love some degree of global warming. The more you make part of the world unliveable, the more I can charge people for living conditions.

I can create bio domes that have clean cool air and charge people to live in there. I've now successfully monetized clean air.

Why?
They'd just need to get property in the safer places.

I think they'd improve research in automation and AI. So that they can have their stuff, without having to rely on regular people who'd be wiped out or affected by climate change in the long run.

I don't think so. Climate change is not a big threat for the rich. Actually they can even gain benefits from it, as it will push inequality to new heights.

At the current rate governments would spend the world's remaining time making a cozy place for them to spend eternity alone.

I'm pretty sure they would just become the goa'oul from Stargate and enslave the mere mortals.

Not at all. Those billionaires will still have massively huge egos that will prevent them from recognizing their own futures will be incredibly shitty.

They’ll use their wealth in the short term to build bunkers, etc. where they think they’ll be able to continue to live in luxury while the rest of the world burns around them. But no matter how good the bunker and how many supplies they squirrel away, they’ll eventually be forced to return to the real world, and won’t be prepared for the fact that their piles of money will be worthless if the planet is largely uninhabitable.

Then those billionaires would continue to keep hoarding wealth across the globe and let everyone else live in/near poverty. Even if they manage to curb climate change, the whole outlook would still look incredibly grim.

No.

I don't know. I kindof suspect that:

• The billionaires may somewhat believe their own propaganda and maybe the climate chang denying billionaires may outnumber the ones who are more in touch with reality.
• The machines that capitalism has built to maintain and intensify wealth concentration may well have escaped the control of their creators. Corporations have wills of their own distinct from that of the people nominally "in charge" like the C-level leaders and board and shareholders.
• Climate change itself may have already passed a point of no return or if it hasn't, it likely will before even the most powerful manage to redirect the momentum of the system in a different direction.

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned this is essentially the plot of fallout. The billionaires will solve climate change by culling the poor "destroying the world".

Well, it's becoming a genuine concern because of the advances of medicine and the growing understanding of the aging process. Imagine a guy like Musk living for a 100 or 200 years, imagine the accumulation of wealth.

I think not, we would just get bigger boats at the sea.

And maybe they'd build some pyramids or something else crazy rich people do.

Lol nope.

Immortallity is not what drives billionaires.

One thing over everything else matters.

The highscore.

As long as it increases they don't care about anything else.

No, they’ll try to solve it using the free market and fail

I think they'd also need to accept climate change exists

If they're immortal, they'd live through climate change, so no, they wouldn't GAF.

No, it is not the individual action of billionaires but the profit driven nature of capitalism that is killing us. If billionaires were immortal they would simply move to more livable places, kill and impoverish large groups of us to reduce the environmental load or create ecospheres to house themselves while we burn.

The problem is not that all billionaires are bad people (they are), its that the economic system they uphold necessitates infinite growth on a finite planet. If these billionaires don't constantly grow their empires then a more evil capitalist willing to exploit others and the environment more efficiently will outcompete them and take their place.

Being shortsighted isn't inherent to a billionaire but it is inherent to the system that justifies their existence

You think Jimmy Carter would be 100years if he was a homeless person. The age-gap between rich and poor will only get bigger. Don't know if immortality is possible, but extending life is definitely possible. Extending life to 150 or even 200 is within our grasp, even today.

What makes you think they didn't invented immortality yet?

Isn't like they will be pandering it if they do.

Supposing they do I believe they will not give a flying fuck about climate change anyway.