Have you considered that CO2 emissions in the USA is now at their 20 -year low because of all the natural gas generated by Fracking which is forcing coal plants to shut down?
Burning “fossil farts” still produces CO2. Plus supplies are limited.
Thorium cycle nuclear and renewables are the correct answer for the long term. It’s really fucking retardedly stupid not to utilize the 100W per square foot of energy that’s basically given us for free. Yeah, conversion losses, daylight hours, and cloud cover. But even 10W per sf on a 1500 sf roof isn’t trivial.