Hey, China drinks CO2. We have the problems of success, the chronic problems. The big fast scary threats, like nuclear armageddon, didn't kill us. We lived long enough to risk getting killed by the slow stuff. You know, I feel good about this.
Serious problems focus our energies.
Only dead people have no problems. Slow, technical, industrial problems are especially promising, because they are always opportunities in disguise. The Greenhouse effect is only partly a political problem. At its core, it's a design problem. A consumer problem.