Ed Cockrell, we are not as helpless to address climate change as we think. It can be slow getting started but once on a roll. The move to EVs is coming about pretty fast and although solutions have not been found for long distant hauling and air travel, there is talent working on it. The big ones of manufacturing steel and cement are further off.
The larger problem is the politics and increasing nationalist and protectionalist sentiment. Our relationship with China is paramount because a real separation won't be conducive to climate.