Green energy has been profitable for years and investment is massively outpacing even the most positive projection of a decade ago.
> There's no reason to believe we can successfully run away from all the problem's technology's caused with more technology
There is actually a lot of reason to believe we can. People were basically having the same attitude regarding food production at the beginning of the 20th century just before the Green revolution happened.
The impact of innovation has been systematically underestimated by environmentalists and climate specialist for the past thrity years. For example, the part of the IPCC scenarios dealing with it is very poor (admittedly it's also old and couldn't really anticipate investement would grow so much).
I think most people face the climate issue from a practical and moral standpoint which is fundamentaly wrong. Sadly the level of applied scientific knowledge of the general population is going down the drain so fast, it's in no way surprising.