We are a smart country, historically. New tech is needed for sure, beside energy storage, single family vertical wind generators, geothermal, whatever springs from from the minds of the innovators. An understanding of the danger of going on the way we have been, is key to innovation. Refusing to link the increasingly violent weather, to greenhouse gases will only increase the threat to humanity, not to mention flora & fauna, from worse hurricanes, tornados, droughts, extinctions of plant & animal species, wildfires, mass migrations, collapse of agriculture, disappearing shorelines.
I try to cut down on consumer goods, use of electricity, etc. but we can only do so much, I have an electric chain saw & lawn mower, which must be charged from the grid. I can't afford solar panels, as I live off SS.