There are some encouraging things... We are seeing a gradual ramping up of spending on developing alternate fuels, fuel sources, electric and hydrogen cars, thermal depolymerization, etc..., but considering the direness of the need, nowhere near enough. I was (and am still) hoping to see a 60's moonshot-style series of national initiatives directed towards the end of liberating our planet from its dependence on coal, natural gas, and oil... School initiatives, massive publicity campaigns, re-training programs, giant solar collector plants, coastal turbines, massive R&D into battery and other energy storage technologies, etc, but there's such a tremendous combination of oil and coal-funded inertia and denial on the topic that progress is too slow to match the need. Localised energy production, micro-turbines, cheap and simple roof-based solar collection. Harvesting waste... There's so many things that we could do, and so few that we are actually doing. Meanwhile the Siberian and Arctic permafrost is melting, readying itself to belch ever more massive quantities of methane (a particularly powerful greenhouse gas) into our already beleaguered upper atmosphere.