Well then, I suggest you be less patronizing. The world as a whole understands the problem, troglodytes in the US are in denial. Most people would respond favorably to regulation of carbon burning though they don't actually know what that is, if national policy were against it.  Of course we will have our Homer Simpsons who won't give up their gigantic internal combustion vehicles. But the price of solar and wind has dropped to three cents per KWH in restricted conditions, and non-electrolytic storage is gaining fast. Purple air from car exhaust could disappear in a couple of decades. Carbon sequestration is a hot research item and the results of storage in Icelandic basalt are impressive. I am reasonably well-educated, and I understand what is happening. A trade war would set us all back, as might the Trump/Ryan era.