the US will pump and burn more oil than the year before.

Possibly. But, the US will also be on a course to lower emissions in the long term.

The Inflation Reduction Act was the most significant piece of climate change legislation in American history. If that goes uninterrupted, so many new battery, solar and other green projects will continue. It’s imperfect but we have a chance (not a guarantee) with the Democrats and none with trump.

And frankly, in North America, most of climate change for the foreseeable future is more inconvenience than it is “societal collapse.”