Here’s the thing. We have a a two party system, which seems problematic, but that means inevitably one party will take each side in the major debates of our time.
The party that thinks we ought to take drastic steps to reduce carbon emissions is only willing to take steps that are easy. They will not add taxes for the burning of fossil fuels because that might lose them votes. They will only add taxes and use policies to hurt political villains such as oil companies. They will happily write checks and add debt so supporters can try to capture energy markets while paying themselves big salaries.
In other words, they act like even they do not believe it. They just keep playing high school style games with billions and trillions of dollars.
Continued appeals to authority, doom and glooming, name calling, and corruption are not going to help reduce carbon the atmosphere.
At the same time, the other party seems pretty willing to compromise on policies that appear to offer results for low harm.
Seems to me the most important progress to concentrate on is cleaning up the political mess in the universities and federal government before we make things worse.