Many do believe, with the current level of advertising it stands to reason they would. Most people don't research anything, they hear it often enough and just accept it. Little trick Goebbels taught us. And we may continue moving forward to address it. But we have zero forward momentum thus far as China and India continue to increase coal fired plants daily so don't expect and positive results. The only thing we can really expect is higher and higher costs for everything we buy. 

As long as only the west address this issue, the west will continue to decline and CO2 will continue to increase.