We cannot support a world population of billions without large amounts of energy. Green energy projects invariably mean less energy, which invariably shuts down people's lifestyles. People want to continue traveling around, hence the riots in Chile. If warmists believed a word of their own bullshit, the money received for carbon offset credits would be spent on actually offsetting carbon emissions, for example by pulverizing olivine rocks and dumping them in the shallow ocean, stimulating the natural process where by calcium silicates get converted into silica and calcium carbonate. Instead carbon credits money is spent on jetsetting around the world to pontificate on global warming. If warmists believed a word of their own bullshit, green energy projects would produce useful energy, instead of superior holiness. What green energy projects produce is shakedowns of the power grid. You get higher energy prices, and frequently get blackouts and brownouts. We could in fact produce the required energy without carbon emissions either using nuclear power, or by mining olivine to offset the carbon emitted by burning coal or oil, but the warmists have shown zero interest in actually producing energy without emitting net carbon. That green energy projects never actually work shows that warmists do not in fact believe what they purport to believe. Some of them want to murder billions of people, some of them want to seize the means of production, and most of them want to shake down the energy grid. Revealed preference is that actually reducing CO2 emissions is mighty low on their list of priorities - or at least reducing CO2 emissions in ways that do not destroy industrial civilization and result in the deaths of billions of people is mighty low on their list of priorities.