If you look at human history, desperation always triggered innovation. 120+ years ago people predicted that the streets would soon drown in horse manure. It was

If you look at human history, desperation always triggered innovation. 120+ years ago people predicted that the streets would soon drown in horse manure. It wasn't averted by introducing horse taxes and auctioning limited-issue passes to leave your estate. It was fixed by transition to cars, that quickly sparked a whole new industry, radically improving the designs one after another. Similar will happen with climate change. Once we get desperate enough (as in actual crop failures and actual fear of hunger), suddenly, figuring out mitigation and reversing techniques will become more profitable than minting shitcoins, and the humanity will very quickly figure something out. Currently, the real desperation isn't there yet. There is a lot of fearmongering driven by hunger for power (restricting what others can do is power) or corporate profits (electric cars are a huge business niche that is only competitive due to the climate angle). It is doing its part, but it's akin to driving at half the speed to conserve fuel, while simultaneously having a huge leaky hole in the gas tank. Better than nothing, but won't fully solve the problem. The best we can do currently is try to not completely forget the real scientific method (experiment -> theorize -> refine -> reproduce -> question -> improve) and the real project management (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, timely goals with prioritization by cost/reward/risk). We will need those thigs when the shit really hits the fan and they are currently being very rapidly eroded in favor of pledging loyalty to the unquestionable leader and throwing poop at the competing tribe.