Consider a clock thermostat, and set it so that you're not using energy when you don't need it, when you're out of your house.
...unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes...
The wind and the sun are free.
You're going to see new processes that utilize waste as the source of energy, so there's no petroleum consumed in the process - that makes the energy balance uniformly positive.
When energy prices go up, the difficulty of projecting demand also goes up - uncertainty goes up.
The will to act is a renewable resource.
You can push your local communities to adopt more sustainable sources of energy and environmentally-friendly practices.
Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.