Good rant but you are still missing out the part played by profit, remember your own concept of the ancient corporate ai?
America, and China, and actually all of us, are it's slaves, destroying the planet and one another for it, as long as we are dependent in that energy.
This is what is driving up the temperature, the atmosphere is adiabatic, in never was about a CO2 blanket, because the atmosphere is adiabatic.
Medium won't be shady after the required change is made.
Monetise the solar energy and everything else is fixed.