the fate of our entire planet
No.
Climate change is real. We’re currently causing changes that otherwise wouldn’t have happened/wouldn’t have happened as quickly.
But neither are we going extinct nor is the planet in any danger.
Let’s keep to the science.
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessment-report-working-group-ii/
IANAL - but I’ve worked for Big Company and have gone through the patent process a few times. A patent isn’t what’s written in the supporting text and abstract. It’s only the exact thing written out in the claims.
First claim from the patent the abstract is from:
Exactly everything described above must be done in that exact same way for there to be an infringement.