My thought (hope?) is that the majority of nations - especially the developed ones - are keenly aware of the problem, but are stuck with 'keeping the plane flying' while trying to come up with a needed 're-design'...that seems to be where a lot of us find ourselves. My thinking is a bit more akin to viewing the problem not so much as a 'depleting commons' (i.e. fossil fuels) as a shifting to a new 'grazing field'. An analogy that pops to mind is the old business school analysis of railroad tycoons back in the day who failed to see themselves as being in the in the "transportation business', thus missing out on profits from new technologies (e.g. airplanes). In this case, we are in the "energy business" and shouldn't get tied down to one source (fossil fuels), when several other technologies are available...therefore, we should be doing all that's necessary to be pre-eminent in them.
Make any sense?