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CMV: Conservative billionaires promote climate change denial because they actively want it to happen

This is a view I have recently had presented to me by a friend and I find strangely compelling. Until then, I believed that climate change denial from members of the presumably intelligent billionaire class and their supporters was due to cognitive dissonance - they simply couldn't psychologically accept that their rampant capitalism would be responsible for the potential massive horrors of climate change - and they earnestly didn't believe it was happening.

Now I think my previous view was an insult to their intelligence. Climate change will be less likely to impact them personally, as they can move to more habitable areas, and they can afford the well-armed security staff to keep hungry populations at bay. At the same time, potential breakdown of governments, and an increase in desperation of the general population all makes for fewer regulations and cheaper workers.

TL:DR -  The Billionaire-class don't want action against climate change because it's in their interest for climate change's worst predictions to come true, allowing them to happily return to societies of a small aristocracy and population of impoverished serfs.
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The chances of most billionaires hoping for this are pretty small, and it involves a lot of steps. First, they'd have to be super evil. Second, they'd have to be planning for far in the future (something most people don't do). Third, they'd have to expect that we won't have any type of successful intervention or outcome aside from their master/serf plans.

Isn't it easier and more like human nature to assume they don't care about climate change because they don't care? Apathy is pretty powerful, especially when you're doing well personally.