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I'm not going to claim this is a positive take that will make you feel less hopeless, but the "climate transformation" is guaranteed to succeed. We will be hitting "peak carbon" and it will decline from there. The only choice we get is whether that transition is by choice in the next decade or two (the easy way) or if we are compelled to by cataclysmic collapse of the world systems we depend on to maintain our modern society (the hard way).
The transition is guaranteed, we just get to decide if we wanna do it the easy way and maintain a reasonable quality of life for billions of people, or the hard way and watch as millions of people die and put planet's ability to support humans is substantial cut down.
i like the way you put it, yet, in my ugly opinion, it won't be the easy way, since, for the last 40 years, there has been a lot of talk but no significant decrease. Worse : we continually increased our carbon emissions. So, it will be the hard way ... until, maybe, 10% of humanity survives ... maybe less.