You know, with all those different groups after something that has some solid, across-the-board fundamentals, I’d think a good communication strategy would come first. If nothing else, people who know they’re not going to get much can get together to run interference for each other. It still wouldn’t come to an ideal conclusion, but . . .

A) there’s a small chance at getting something that’s better than nothing

and

B) even if nothing remotely good comes, the tax on the energy and resources of the evildoers puts them in a bad way for the next fight.

Otherwise the squirrels inherit it all

Carbon sequestration, to digress, gets bruited about as a solution, but the tech itself is in its infancy and what the techies mean by it is not what the suits with the think tank style mean. The latter make projections based on assumptions which themselves are the product of their copious inner methane resources.