We are not just concerned with climate and what to do about it. But since C02 is caused by larger forces than just at the point of origin - utility companies. cars agriculture, but in the drivers in the form of desire for growth, the dependency of current functioning on energy -wind and sun, using fossil fuels to make hydrogen and biomass - we need to look deeper and more widely if we hope to find significant leverage points.
What I am working toward is the idea that the nation-state, cannot control CO2 with laws and regulations because the problems are too large. For example, if we create new forms of non-fossil fuel energy, that new energy, which we hoped would replace existing fossil fuel use, we find that the new energy just gets sold and used, merely gets added on. That would be the market. How to make sure the cuts wouldsimultaneously take place? This is where we are stuck and have been for a long time. How do you actually stop fossil fuel use in some specific places? NIMBY for sure energized.
There is no state mechanism that can seriously curtail fossil fuel use because law and regulation can't cope. We have seen 30 years of failure to find a way..We are coming to see that climate is a symptom among many symptoms of some more powerful causes, and that is, if we can name them, the leverage we need, if not to change direction, to at least have a better understanding. The problems are welded together, problems such as climate, overfished oceans, more college degrees with less educating, music grown violent, and simple, humanities phased out by STEM*, cost of coffee rising, shortages of spices, sea level rise, and declining life span in the US. All these and more are symptoms of an extractive economy that wants your wealth. giving back only what is necessary to keep the system going. Maybe this is the best we can do, not just imagine, but achieve. We can see the brass ring but not that the old horse will break if we lean over to grab it. We need to keep trying.