Political will is absolutely lacking, and I don’t see that changing even a little bit. Just look at Joe Biden’s hypocrisy. Hours after the do-nothing Cop 26 Conference wound down, a conference in which Biden said the US would "lead the world" on solutions to the climate crisis, his administration approved the largest ever fossil-fuel leasing auction in the Gulf of Mexico.

While Biden was telling the world we would be leading, he was enabling incredibly destructive extraction of oil and natural gas, on a scale that hasn’t been seen ever.

To say that political will is lacking is a vast understatement. Our political system is geared toward a fossil fuel economy, toward propping up the fossil fuel industry, and utterly away from seriously disincentivizing fossil fuel use.

The Democrats can’t even effectively control the Senate, because coal, which is barely economically important to the United States anymore given natural gas, keeps Joe Manchin from getting with the Democratic program.

You don’t fuck with fossil fuel in the United States. Be it petroleum, natural gas, or the dying coal industry, political will across both parties is all about strongly defending those industries.

Nothing is going to change unless that political paradigm changes dramatically, and I don’t see that happening, not anytime soon enough.