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Big polluters know their resources are finite. They’re deliberately cooking the planet because after some threshold has been reached, they’re going to pivot their enormous infrastructural and industrial capacities into geoengineering.
We’ll be paying BP and Shell to keep the planet cool eventually.
</Tinfoil hat>
They're extracting as much as possible until the starship is ready and the base on mars is complete.
Or
The new alien overlords like it hot.
Bruh even a +5°C war-torn Earth is an infinitely better place to live than Mars. Mars would just be quieter.
At 5° there wouldn't be life to fight wars. Or land.