We could fund the transition to green energy with 10-30% of the world's fossil fuel subsidy

This is exactly why nothing meaningful or sufficient will happen under the current system. Nothing that costs our leaders even a penny can be enacted. We live and die by per their greed. Our elected officials are overwhelmingly corrupted, acting to ensure that their obscenely wealthy remain obscenely wealthy. All we’re good for is putting the fuckers in power in exchange for which we’re entitled to nothing more than being screwed, impoverished, etc.