Re: Global warming is predicted by the laws of thermodynamics
The "needed" social change is why it hasn't happened. Asking billions of people to accept a markedly reduced quality of life is a guaranteed vote loser. This is why it's being forced in slowly.
Look at the ICE vehicle mandates for instance. Only those don't work either, because not everyone can, wants to, or is able to live with an electric car. Most people that want one, can afford one, and have the space to charge it conveniently, already run one. The mandates are already panicking the car manufacturers, and we're only at the beginning. Pushing ahead will put a lot of manufacturers out of business, leading to mass unemployment as the resulting supply chains and collateral industries collapse. Another vote killer. One the governments hoped would be someone elses' problem in the future, except it's biting now.
Look at the green energy push, with no thought to how the grid can handle things, what happens when the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine. Trillions of ££££ needed for transmission infrastructure and storage, but no money to fund it. So we push on regardless, needing gas peaker plants to fill in the gaps, and help keep the grid stable.
So even forcing it slowly won't work.
Mass tree planting is cheap, effective, you can plant fast growing species that can lock up tonnes per year per tree, which are still suitable for construction lumber.
But as someone said above, where's the money in that. All the carbon schemes are just a wheeze for someone to make money. They don't actually solve anything. CO2 production is at best moved around. Never reduced. Tree planting can have a return as a lumber investment, but not on the timescales investors demand.