I think we're on the wrong path and for many reasons which you also touch on. I don't know what the answers are, only that the things they present as solutions are no solutions at all. Just because a thing is hard to do doesn't mean it doesn't need doing but it seems in many ways the hard things are deemed too out of reach so they focus on the less important but more easily implemented things and the cycle continues with the biggest polluters and wasters free to continue on their revenue wasting ways.
I'll be dead in 20 years so won't really feel the full brunt of the issues however many people will and I do not think it's going to be pleasant. Hiding the truth won't make the reality of it go away, but it seems people are expert and doing that these days.
I think that businesses essentially buy elected officials by funding their campaigns when they run for office and in turn governments cater to businesses. Plus companies threatening to leave a country or region and all of that jazz.
It does sort of make one feel doomed in a way. Especially because I like to think of the physics notion - that energy cannot be created nor destroyed, only transfered. Makes me think that we all just get recycled into new earthly forms over and over endlessly. Perhaps in a few decades you and I will be "out of the pan" only to end up "in the fire," so to speak. Who knows?