I believe our world and corporate leaders and general public are so ignorant and self absorbed that no matter how bad it starts getting, people will do nothing. Like they are right now, when things have never been worse for the environment and the signs of doom never clearer.. As sad as this may seem, the only way I believe emissions will stop ravaging Earth is by a disease deadly enough to wipe out humanity and do it for us.

Human societies always fail and exceed their ability to reflexively modernize the unintended consequences of their meager technology and innovation. Failure races against education and reflexive steps to ameliorate unintended consequences of previous forms of social organization, energy use, agriculture and technology. This society is failing bc it chooses to fail. You can't have this many people tuning into "American Idol" and a technologically advanced civilization that has its shit together. It is, essentially, a stupid culture and voices of reason are weak against it.