Society is a part of reality. What society will and will not accept is a limiting factor just like the limiting factor of energy density, hydrodynamic drag, etc. The reality is, society will keep burning fossil fuels until a cost effective substitute is provided.

I could turn around and say the same thing to you. Go take your proposal they were drastically cut international shipping and move containers with sailboats and biomass fuel to national leaders. You'll rapidly discover that reality disagrees with the feasibility of this solution.

Society doesn't enable the possible, it responds to the possible.

I'm not saying what you're discussing isn't a problem. But it's a separate problem.

Again, Stein's Law applies.

As Jeffrey Immelt of GE said, "We know the solution. But we don't like it."

The problem isn't with the answers or solutions.

What you've been arguing here is largely simply wishful thinking. "The consequences of some fact are too terrible to imagine, so we won't imagine them."