There are many proposals on what we should do. They seem to fall into two groups.
invest in new tech by providing incentives, Green-tech. Is it just greenwashing?
cut growth and then total energy use. Who gets cut, and who decides? Tax, rationing, local development?
The idea-space is like a maze with a number of entrances but every path, after a number of logical points (solar panels everywhere leads to an analysis of materials needed and the energy such an effort would take) comes to a dead end. “We have the money, we will just buy the stuff we need.”
Is there any existing proposal that actually leads to a viable path? If the answer is no it seems it will help eliminate constraints and free up a more radical imagination (political, economic, social) and we might engage with more robustness and courage and stop being so passive.
The good news is that passivity makes us depressed while working on some approach with vigor makes us feel much better.