George firstly thanks for your story, with what appears to me to be a question you are asking.
The mathematical key to the question I think you've asked, is energy, and it's relationships with creation and destruction.
I am saying this as a Systems Engineer working on the issue voluntarily since seeing it coming during virtual world related research in 2017.
The real world faces the same problem as all current virtual worlds, they are all for profit, and as such they are all fundamentally unsustainable.
Profit is the mechanism we use to haul energy up from the ground.
Profit itself depends entirely on energy coming from finite sources, and yet it becomes less and less effective, the scarcer the energy source becomes.
Imagine the clutch wearing out, on a car climbing a long hill, and you start to get the picture.
That picture is situated within an energy flow diagram representing the path of energy from source to the 150 or so Joules per second, consumed by every human.
The source, is from Earth, to every human, via the hierarchical structures of political power, layered according to "Privelige" in humanity, giving us the familiar pyramidical overview, base at the bottom, with the net direction of energy flow upwards. At each successive layer from the ground up, the people of that layer enjoy abundance of energy made available by everyone on the layers below.
At the top sits monarchy.
Modern monarchy are folk like Gates and Musk, though some old monarchy of geographical colonialism still exists, like in UK.
Notice this picture starts to look like the shoot of a tree or other plant, in the days, weeks or months before it forms leaves.
Our tree of humanity is thousands of years old, and it only just started sprouting leaves, in the form of solar installations, all over the world.
Until these leaves formed, the energy flows within the pyramid, and the shoot of the tree were pretty simple, always from ground upwards.
Now the net flow of energy has become a little complicated, by the presence of these leaves.
In an actual tree, nutrients are what transport energy, a number of Joules per nutrient token, whilst in the human tree, money is what transports our energy, a number of Joules per money token.
In the actual tree, new nutrients begin to be issued in response to the Joules of energy falling on its newly formed leaves, carrying those Joules to Earth, via it's roots, assisted by gravity.
This new activity in the actual tree is it's main mode of existence for the remainder of its life, during which it grows to hundreds or even thousands of its pre-leaf shoot size, and supplies back to Earth many thousands of times the number of Joules it hauled up from Earth to grow its shoot.
The transition from infant to adult involved switching it's energy dependence from Earth, to the sun.
The whole reason for the Existence of the actual tree, is to contribute towards the creation of all of life on Earth.
To do this, it effectively took out a kind of energy loan, a number of Joules, from Earth, to fund its growth in terms of energy as an infant, to the point it formed leaves.
We should realise those many trillions of financial debt of humanity actually represent our energy deficit to Earth.
The sun was the original issuer of those Joules, that we took from Earth, mostly by destroying materials of Earth, replacing the latter with pollution.
We should notice energy is the currency of nature, the only issuer and enforcer of it is the sun.
We should realise that by taking out the energy of the Earth, we signed a contract with nature, a kind of agreement we would pay it back, many times over.
If we don't, we burn.
Currently, we have not yet done what happens within an actual tree, to enable the energy deficit to Earth to begin to be repaid.
We have not yet begun to create our equivalent of nutrients in response to the Joules being absorbed by our leaves, so as to enable the Joules received to flow to Earth.
But notice economic product is being created nonetheless from the Joules received.
EVs are being charged, homes are being heated / cooled, meals are being cooked, cows are being milked, journeys are being made, products and favors are being exchanged, actually the list is endless, and scaling up, all without pollution.
In the case where hydrogen is produced from electrolysis, 24 hour backup is achieved whilst removing all batteries, and this fuel functionally replaces fossil fuels whilst even also converting to human food, in the form of "Solein".
Widespread use of it, this fuel created directly from the free Joules of sunlight, results also in water and air filtration and circulation as a by-product.
Moving a significant portion of our food consumption over to Solein removed our burden from the convential food chain, theoretically allowing it to recover, which we know it does, even without Solein, witnessed during covid, in the presence of massive stimulus.
There we saw the solution of what has to happen, for us to begin honoring our contract with nature, to repay the energy taken from Earth.
Money has to be issued for free, a number of Joules per token money, to begin transporting those Joules to Earth.
This completes the circuit, by opening up the path to Earth, for the Joules being received by our solar installations to Earth.
Hydrogen is the magical new fuel, use of which reverses the damage done by use of fossil fuels to date.
The business of Renewables will tell you nothing of this, because it is profit driven.
The current platform tells no-one (relatively speaking) anything of this, because it is profit driven.
Mainstream science tells you nothing of this, because it is profit driven.
The business of economics will tell you nothing of this, or analyse the energy they themselves, and all of the financial business of scarcity enforcement necessary for profit, are wasting as a result of the clutch burning out, in our economic vehicle climbing the hill to expand our species to the point we've begun synthesising the energy of the sun.
But hopefully you can see it now anyway :)
PS I've deliberately left a profit driven context "correction" made by the platform Ai algorithms attempting to second-guess my message here. It changed at least one word I wrote, from present tense, which we are observing, to past tense, making it look like I am anticipating what is to come next, rather than what we are observing, thus the reader gets a false impression this is all just theory, or an idea of mine, rather than actual ongoing observation.
Please be assured it is all observation. backed up by solid formal systems Engineering analysis, with real sums done real data, proving that nature is forcing our hand in this, inflation of money is the thing they can't get round, not by creation of CDBCs or otherwise, it has to be issued free, authentically enummerating Joules received for free. All money not issued like this will devalue. This is physics now, no longer economics.