The leaders already sold the planet to buy their wealth. Like Faust, they cannot undo that deal by pretending it didn’t happen. Like Faust they will try to seduce the young Gretchen (Greta?) to get a bastard child of the next generation inheriting their Faustian deal. Like Faust they can only hope that their prayers will solve it but they will never be earnest enough because they have believed their own lie that only scientific materialism exists, not God.
