I understand this position normally, but we unquestionably need many orders of magnitude more investment in non-carbon-producing forms of energy and energy stor

I understand this position normally, but we unquestionably need many orders of magnitude more investment in non-carbon-producing forms of energy and energy storage if we have any hope at all of decarbonizing at some large fraction of current living standards. The situation right now is really dire and almost any cost is worth paying. IMO we definitely will not do this investment, so the remaining likely scenarios are grim. Either we successfully decarbonize but at much lower standards of living OR we just keep burning stuff we found in the ground and the biosphere collapses.