A valid alternative to me is to put some serious effort into understanding in detail why people hold (or seem to hold) particular beliefs about climate change,

A valid alternative to me is to put some serious effort into understanding in detail why people hold (or seem to hold) particular beliefs about climate change, as well as some effort into the general field of human cognition and belief formation. Or, look into whether the comically coarse structure of our "democratic" political structures may have some effect. Perhaps we could also scale back a tad on making our phones thinner and take better pictures, and figuring out how to get people to click on advertisements on the internet, and redirect those efforts into finding a way to actually do something about this so called climate crisis (that doesn't seem urgent enough that we'd dare to question any of our axioms, institutions, or theories (mind reading) and approaches (propaganda) we've come up with so far). Or, we can keep going on the path we're on and see how Mother Nature rewards us in return.