The Giant Pool Of Money. Implications

Yupe, we have an example of that here in Marc9000. He knows that CO2 is a green house gas and car exhaust is poison but feels that his precious freedoms are infringed if he forced to act as if he gives a flying F about anyone else or their children (or even his own). There is great evil loose in the world and it's name doesn't start with an S.

It gets harder each day of delay but things are happening that might save us. When I think it through I'm inclined to get pessimistic though since we have so many individuals dragging their feet and gnashing teeth.
But the good news is that even with Trump loving his good, clean coal the coal fired plants are shutting down just like they were before him because they are uneconomic.
While efforts are made to stall the rising tide of electric vehicles they are already cheaper in the long tern (if you can afford the high up front costs) and so are pushing out gas burners across the globe (at the premium end). I just spent 1500 on maintenance for my Audi which is about what I expect in cheaper years (it was almost twice that last year and ALL on stuff that won't happen on my Tesla) almost all on stuff that my next car won't need. At most I will do that just one more time. Then I will be free.
Power production has been shifting strongly to natural gas but now even that is starting to lose the race. As you are aware, money talks and renewables are starting to talk very loudly.
We should be pushing it much harder to make the timelines we need but economics is at least shoving us in the right direction.

Yea, 'cause I have kids I try to be a cock-eyed optimist but realistically we are doomed. My plan B is to die by the time it gets bad.