At this point, There's only one way that the industrial world might have a chance of holding global temperature rise to 2 degrees C: A global economic meltdown that severely restricts the amounts of fossil fuels that get extracted and burned, primarily coal and oil.
Obviously no politician is going to run for office under a "vote for me and I'll crash the economy and make you all lose your jobs" platform... So we'll have to depend on Wall Street shenanigans again, or some kind of black swan event that strangles much of the world's oil supplies and produces such a collapse. And we'll have to "hope" that the nations' central banks cannot restart the industrial economies nor can any other government actions... So, a good time for wars to get started.
I wish there were some other "hope", but this much should be clear: Since neither the US nor China is willing to voluntarily crash their own economies, we're either heading for climate catastrophe or else we have to hope that a global economic collapse - long term - happens within the next decade. There are no miracles. Industrial civilization is going through a huge bottleneck, along with the human population.
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