There’s loads of options.
Plenty of science that could potentially save us if invested properly.
Lab grown meat. Carbon capture. Using said carbon capture for building materials. Nuclear fusion. Outer atmosphere energy generation. Etc.
There’s also cutting back on our consumerism.
Once it gets bad enough that it affects the super rich the world’s governments will miraculously and quickly act as one.
It has an orange end and triggers on it which marks it as a toy gun. So they’d be fine most likely. But it’s still a stupid move.