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It is not the business of capitalism to deal with “climate change”, if all that is involved is to pay more taxes.

Now, it there really WERE a profit to be made in dealing with “climate change”, you could bet that the forces of capitalism would be all over the “change”.

Here is a suggestion: Turn the Sahara Desert into a rain forest.

All along the west cost of Africa, set up a series of thorium-powered atomic piles, whose sole purpose is to heat up sea water, distilling it into huge condensation towers, and flushing the concentrated brine resulting back out to sea. The distillate is collected at the base of the condensation towers, and pumped over the Atlas Mountains, to run at first as underground streams, then welling up into rivers and put to use as an irrigation system. When a sufficient flow of water is achieved, the entire Sahara would be turned into a huge agricultural and forested basin, able to support vastly more life than is now the case.

Over time, this profusion of forest and farmland would in turn attract more rain, which does not now fall on the Sahara, or falls, but evaporates before it ever reaches the surface of the terrain. This would continue to spread the green belt all the way across northern Africa, and into the rest of the Middle East, eventually all the way to Afghanistan. With plentiful food and the opportunity to give up the nomad life, at least some of the unrest would be laid to rest among the people who dwell there. Civilization in North Africa and the Middle East will have an opportunity that has not existed since the time of the Roman Empire.

Now THAT would be “climate change”. Introduce a quantum leap in the presence of green growing life forms on the earth’s surface, and the other imagined problems will recede accordingly.

Oh, yeah, it may be necessary to actually INCREASE the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere. Just to feed this new plant growth.