"We need to declare a climate emergency and authorize the wartime production act. We need to devote our entire production capability to sustainable energy and research."

Your understanding of this fact alone, would get my vote.

We know what we have to do. There just is no will for it. The need to move forward is being thwarted by people's desperate longing to return to the old "normal".

The majority doesn't want change. Until they do, nothing is going to happen.