Good stuff Paul, thanks for posting. I haven't done anywhere near as much reading around the subject of environmentalism as you obviously have, I don't know about any of the characters you mention but Ostrom sounds interesting.

Anywhow, using the formal systems Engineering technniques I think I covered with you before, it has more or less come to a conclusion with the help of ChatGPT, which I hope you might see complements our understanding of most things we've been observing, especially the part played by the "Profit monster".

https://eric-bott.medium.com/the-energy-polarity-multiplier-framework-fb4215b55862