Until governments and politicians really push for a change, nothing will happen. Protests will most likely become much more violent and/or destructive... but what do I care in my car with the AC running at full power while the sun melts everything around me. The younger people that have to deal with the mess our generations leave behind will get very angry. Now Friday for Future and others are protesting peacefully, but I can totally see some of them loosing it in the future.
Take Germany respectively Berlin for example. I have a car (95% for vacations and longer trips) but otherwise my family is a public transport and bike family. I would love to buy an e-cargo bike (up to 25 km/h). I could probably replace everything I do in the city in my car with one. I would most likely even sell my car then (after living with one for a while to see how it goes) and fall back to rental cars and car sharing instead. These things are expensive. But they mean less cars on the road. People using them live a healthier live.
But guess what: sure, EVs up to 65.000 fucking Euro get subsidized with my tax money, but an E-Bike, GOD NO. That won't help the car industry in Germany, and the industries asses is where the politicians are stuck in with their heads. Deep deep inside!
Now they even subsidize the gas prices with 30 Cent / liter (Diesel less I think), and of course that's a lot of bullshit, too.
Gas prices artificially climbed in the last weeks because of that. So in the end fucking Shell and Co. get the money. They also want to extend the A100 (highway) for 700 Million Euros (and it will be more in the end, as always). So even more cars. In 2022. WTF
All of this makes me incredibly angry. And even if someone deflates my car tires, this wouldn't make me nearly as mad as the whole situation of the human race speedrunning global warming.
