The truth of the matter is that the only way to stop or at least slow global warming is that we have to change. Nobody wants to, I damn sure don't want to, so here we are.
I'm not going to change when Bill Gates, Joe Biden, all the rich folks in Silicon Valley and Hollywood and Wall Street aren't going to give up their mega yachts or private planes or McMansions (or literal mansions most likely). We all know that all of these A-List fear-mongers emit more carbon than you or I ever could in our lifetime and they do it in a year what we couldn't do in a lifetime.
Leonardo DiCaprio isn't flying commercial jetting all over the world to scream about the environment. And then it just rolls down hill all the way to the pretty rich folks who fly for fun (like Cincy Dawg) on down the people who use gas to heat their house in the winter down to the lowest levels of society. The really poor don't give a flyin' fuck about Global Warming or climate change anyways, that's a rich man's problem.
I know that I'd have to give up my boats, my truck, my A/C and all the creature comforts that I would literally die protecting because I'm not giving up one inch of my lifestyle. And in truth, there is very little the US Gov't could do to make me. If they tried to (and everybody knows their trying, but just a little whittle here and there) they know there would either be an uprising or revolt and they would soon be voted out of office. Sure, there are fringes like AOC who preach this shit, but her constituents really don't want the change they vote for, if they got it they would immediately vote her out.
So they increase the gas mileage standards a little bit, try to encourage electric car usage, put some money into R&D for green energy, put up subsidies for wind turbines and solar panels. But let's face it, we all know that Climate Change is happening, already happened, and will continue to happen for at least the next 100-300 years. I've read reports that even if we stopped 100% emitting carbon we would not see any reversal for that period of time. So we all know what we're going to do is just learn to live with it. More storms like Harvey, more extreme weather events, some people will move, some cities like NYC will end up building big sea-walls (I kinda think maybe that is bullshit with regards to how high the sea will get). Some places will be abandoned, but hell there is cities that are fully submerged from thousands of years ago so it wouldn't be the first time.
And plants will grow better and longer in season, and there will be some good side effects like maybe Minnesota not being so damn cold in the winter. Weirdly, I feel that Texas is much, much colder in the winter so 'splain that one to me.
But I'm only going to change when it's convenient for me to do so and cheaper. Like if I can get an electric truck that is cheaper to operate and can go 500 miles one a charge and re-charge in under 30 minutes.
And none of you are changing either, so let's just quit arguing about minutia that may or may not occur and just get on with living.