That's Business As Usual (BAU). BAU is simply bad. The only rational road that I can see out of this cul-de-sac is electrical. Conversion of transportation and everything else to an electrical base coupled with creation of electricity from whatever sources turn out to be best for us. That looks (to me) to be solar, wind, and nuclear, at least for the near term. I don't like nuclear because of safety, security, and proliferation issues but the alternative is literally social collapse somewhere down the road. I'd prefer renewables over nuclear to the greatest extent possible but it's not yet clear if we can ramp up renewables fast enough to matter. In any case though, if we continue down the BAU path, we are making the situation worse, not better.