> Can we explore this issue from a not-panicked perspective?
I think we tried doing that. See, for example, Carl Sagan testifying before Congress in 1985 [1].
I _wish_ that fossil fuels could be on your list. I think a main reason why nothing is being done is that oil is big business! Oil companies have toppled a democratically elected government because that government was cutting into their oil profits [2]. Moving away from fossil fuels would cut into oil's bottom line, so they paid lots of money to discredit and oppose climate change research for decades [3].
Iran wasn't reducing the oil production, but taking it away from the British at a time when Britain still had a very colonial mindset.
The whole Iran coup wasn't really so much the oil companies toppling government as Churchill wanting to ensure access to oil to permit Britain to recover quickly after the war.
The whole Iran coup wasn't really so much the oil companies toppling government as Churchill wanting to ensure access to oil to permit Britain to recover quickly after the war.