The Extinction doesn’t need to have any Avatars.
The prospect itself that it exists and is an actual threat seems to be enough to cause abundance of fear.
It doesn’t need to have any Avatars, but it has.
They are the opposite of any other Avatars - they do the most harm by not doing anything at all.
The Extinction Avatars are the people who have the resources that would let them stop it.
But they won’t.
i feel like this is one of the reasons the extinction makes for an interesting fear that somewhat disrupts the whole system, because what you’re implying there I assume is that like billionaires or corporation owners would be extinction avatars, which, to be fair, feels like a logical step to make, but we see in the podcast how, to be an avatar of something, you need to at least have a passion connected to it, at least some kind of emotional investment to make the fear such an important part of your life that it consumes you to some level, and this just clearly doesn’t align with the apathy that you see in individuals that could incite real change - there is no fear there, because they have nothing to fear, and there is no real passion there towards the actual fear, moreso just towards profit. If there was the real passion or care towards the fear that is needed to become an avatar, they would not be in that position of power in the first place.
having said that, i suppose i could see potential avatars in the dehumanisation of one’s self in the chase of exponential growth and profit, which could be loosely linked to the fear, but no billionaire wants climate change, as a catastrophe would obviously lead to less money, and therefore im not sure how an avatar like that serving the extinction would form, unless you can become an avatar nonchalantly out of apathy, which i do think is a very interesting potential question that the show could’ve explored