TESCREALISM is a billionaire ideology which aims to create super-intelligent AI as a "worthy successor to humanity".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TESCREAL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1dIC287Zz0
The ruling class is most likely gonna put particles into the atmosphere to cool down the planet (With unforeseeable consequences for the rest of us of course) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_injection
They put "AI data-center" satellites into the orbit that so they can continue their pursuit of super-intelligent AI even after fucking the sky. In addition, the reentry of said satellites has the potential to destroy the ozone layer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKK0dgDIxKY
We are almost certainly gonna experience societal collapse within our lifetime.
Yeah thats true too, and... thats a lot of math to do, to try and estimate that.
And also yep, might make more sense if we actually had some kind of asteroid refining ability... but we do not.
Even if we did, it is much countless times easier not to fuck up the globe than having to rely on star Trek level technology to not go extinct.