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It's not even a particularly bad one, compared to Dole coups, Coca Cola assassination, and Uniroyal napalming civilians.
There are no other bridges after the climate is fucked. This is the End of the Line.
Wasting money on bad solutions is not the same as fucking it up completely.
Also, I don't know if you're being unrealistically optimistic or unrealistically pessimistic, but there are still deeper depths to sink to than just fucking up the climate. That still has a whole range from reducing the carrying capacity of the earth to 5 billion or to 5 million or 5 thousand or zero, and there are more or less horrifying ways to handle that drop too.
No idea what you're trying to get across but eugenics is not the answer