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I often think after pulling myself out from under a vehicle that knowing how to change the oil will be as useful in the near future as me knowing how to hitch a stagecoach is now (I don't know how to do it).
Market demand and technological progress is likely to be a bigger influence on affecting climate change than politics, unless the politics destroys economies or reduces the population.
I've heard it said that if we launched our most capable spacecraft today towards our nearest star, with the aim to get there as quickly as possible, it would likely arrive after a spacecraft launched 10 years later, because the likely improvements in technology would allow the slower craft to be overtaken despite a head start.
That hypothetical scenario makes sense to me, and likewise I would expect our capacity to efficiently and effectively address climate change in the future will be vastly greater than it is today. What is needed then is to not get in the way of technological progress.
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