[mbruce]

We stink at it for a few reasons - some covered by the article - and some not. Primarily it is due to population in total and our habits of which generate Co2. Our houses, energy expenditure on cars, planes etc are valuable to us, and are not at all easy to change.e.g. Thing about houses designed for A/C with lots of glass. Lifecycle is 50 years. We are over optimistic about very large infrastructure change in wind / solar and despatchable energy replacing other sources and aren’t very practical. Did someone mention nuclear or is that verboten? It is also a distributed problem. If one country gets ‘ahead’ it incurs a cost penalty (unless you are one of the few with cheap hydro). What’s the incentive? Many intuitively believe in climate change but want someone else to pay (doesn’t work out). Who realistically can see widespread support to cut the standard of living? So, some problems are very hard and this is one of them. No real easy answer. This is why we stink at it. Until the pain is far more evident.