It is well known that we are not perfectly rational and that our irrationality (or, more precisely, our stupidity) results in us making disastrously short-sighted decisions. This, at least in the case of the climate crisis, has led us to where we are now: on the edge of global catastrophe unless we do something urgently. What if one of the ways to mitigate this crisis is to have an authoritarian state, monitoring and controlling our every decision, to ensure that our actions align with global climate objectives? With the use of (big) data analytics, we could perhaps engineer the perfect political environment in which people would be structurally disabled from doing things that are bad for the biosphere. What about our leaders? Human leadership is also notoriously dreadful, especially during times of crisis. Perhaps we ought to rely on artificial intelligence (AI) systems to make decisions instead of humans? Such systems are not driven by human greed and hubris and could thus provide a further AI-based solution to climate change problems. To reap all these benefits, all we have to do is give up our freedom.