In 2008 I wrote similar white papers for businesses highlighting the profit opportunities in climate change. It was reverse psychology. If you could get investors salivating over profits, they first had to accept climate change and its implications in the now.
Realistically, 3 degrees is well beyond current investor timeframes, so prognosticating future tech is just a fun exercise for them with no real applications.
Don't begrudge them their fantasies. Your holding onto "trees and bushes" is a fantasy, too.