Going to get worse in the coming decades too. We need a massive WW2 style debt financed spend into new energy tech. The US, EU and the top next few economies issue a few trillion dollars worth of investment bonds to fund new technologies with a return on the investment on top of interest. It would cost governments nothing in real terms in terms of interest payments and return on investment would come from the profits made by the technologies that ended up working and producing clean energy.

We could sell this in every country, even to American Republican voters as a national security issue and also a future of abundant cheap energy. Being able to charge your vehicle for a few hundred miles for a few dollars would go down well with voters right now. Not to mention millions of new jobs etc.

That's the least worst option we have. If we do it we're less fucked in the future this way.

JUst as an example Americans were asked if they were worried about the long term effects of global warming. About eighty percent said yes. Then they were asked what level of taxes they'd be prepared to pay to combat the problem. Only fifty percent would pay a dollar a week. Only twenty percent would pay ten dollars a month.

There's no way to do this without new tech and we need it yesterday. We have to find out a way to sell the big investment to rich country voters or we're fucked.