The climate change is already upon us. One reason they can use the Northern route. Some people perhaps could advocate for the Malthusian option I guess : /. If I had to chose between who will be in charge of mitigating the climate change I'd chose BRICS instead of having neoliberal NetZero and such 'green' BS policies we have here in the west. They failed. Until there is political will in the west to be constructive and get rid of our parasitic genocidal elite it will stay that way.

Talking about NetZero and realising that western uber neocons are in trouble, perhaps the industrial capacity of the west will tend towards zero carbon emissions which may balance out the 'new' emission of the rest of the world. Consider Germany and the rest of the Europe circling the drain, hopefully followed by the main hegemon.

As I said before, the golden billion will just have to put up with global South having decent living.