Appreciate the urgency of your message, and what you've said here about economists, though there are exceptions (Michael Hudson comes to mind) . But now maybe we'll start seeing Engineers can't get away with the liberties taken by economists (Cory Doctrow created a great new word to describe the worst kind of economist, the "Economismist" :)
Engineers actually need to get the sums right, as we are talking about physics, not something debateable. The solution, after we take it, (solar hydrogen, and the necessary measure of monetising it), leads to some initial growth but in a sustainable way, also naturally limiting eventual population. I see it as something similar to a baby born from energy dependence on its mother, it will grow to adulthood, and no more.
Thanks Indi for being the usual literary lethal weapon, now you are aimed at the bullseye, it seems to me.
On Sri Lanka, and actually Ukraine, it frustrates me no end we could have short circuited what happened in both cases, the solution has been around, but still we don't seem to have any way to communicate it to folk in power, nor those invested as you pointed out, but then there wasn't the lethal weapon of yourself hitting them between the eyes...
Maybe this will make a difference.
Will follow your links to have a look.
Thanks for posting!
More power to your elbow.