It is like company founder would go on all hands meeting and said: "yep we are going bankrupt. Thanks for attending." This would not inspire anyone to work harder to save the company, people would likely just start searching for another job.
But it is more complex than that with grid connections, and storage key, let alone transferring combustion processes to electric.
Are there any artificial life simulation models that people can use to model agents for future usage patterns; I can’t but help this would make an amazing game, educational so people can try to resolve it.
The EU "forcing approach" of making GHG emissions expensive is getting people increasingly angry because it drives up prices and makes you seem like a slouch to financial markets. It could work but people need to be understanding of what's going on and adapt their consumption and profession and I don't see that happening at the required speed without it falling apart.
The US "ship all dirty production elsewhere approach" looks good in the books but is fake and it also makes people angry because of lost jobs. But it does get you great innovative power to the point of hoping magic AGI fixing everything.
Then there's the "don't care approach" of e.g. Russia and the "can't care approach" of the global south.
China however may have realised it's a losing game anyway and it has all the materials, manufacturing and authoritarian clout to push ahead and be the last one standing.
Meanwhile everyone has to navigate geopolitical power games in a WMD era. It's troubling...
My bet is on "humans".