What is required is COVID level energy savings times two or three.
But as long as we can't see the damage being done, there won't be sufficient support to change things in a meaningful way.
That is human nature unfortunately.
I wonder if we already saw some effects in Europe in 2021/2022. 2021 was a normal rain year for the first time in many years. The spring in 2022 is the first normal spring in many years: Temperatures rise gradually, as opposed to going from 0 to 25 degrees in a couple of days.
I know that the sample is too small, but the difference is striking.