I don't have the answer to that one, a few ideas, yes, but no definitive answer.  I keep asking myself the same question.  Of course we can all make the lifestyle changes that bring us into harmony with a sustainable future, but beyond that on a policy level, we in the US need to throw the buffoon in the White House out with as many of his partisans in Congress as well. Then we'll be able to cooperate with the Europeans and start working at bringing India and China on board.

We'll also need to develop low cost, energy efficient technologies to transfer to the Third World.  I see confronting global warming as an opportunity to correct many of the mistakes of the past and to rebuild the world in a more sustainable, kinder, and more just way. From my perspective it's not just a question of finding an alternative power source and then continue doing the same stupid things we've been doing.  We need to reorganize our priorities and our societies. There are other crises out there, fresh water and population being chief among them, that will still be there if we treat global warming simply as a question of energy independence.

"My True Religion Is Kindness" -- The Dalai Lama