I agree with your instincts, started working on what I see, as long practicing Systems Engineer, is basically an energy problem. There is a solution, and it does require all people to do the work of recovery, but it has to be on solar energy, and the effort has to be to put back the historical solar energy we released to heat by withdrawing the energy we used to date from stores on Earth. In other words, what we do has to result in net creation. You mentioned we share the planet with a certain number of other species, but the truth is that number is diminishing, we are in process of destroying all life on Earth, and much of that life was life which created things other than heat from solar. This is the fundamental first driver of temperature, before we consider things like CO2, which are just mulitpliers of the source problem.

The business model of profit itself has to end, because profit is fully dependent on robbing energy from the planet, it can't be done on solar because the sun gives what it gives for free, it can't respond by giving more out than we give to it.

We will integrate with solar by starting to issue monay as solar indexed stimulus. This will happen, if only to maintain energy value in money, which has to come to represent nothing, if not the only energy scaling upwards (Solar).

The story below explains the conclusion of now seven years of my research to date. If you like the story, you can always buy the Amazon book of the same name.

Would be much appreciated, as you can maybe guess, the story of how profit has to end is not appreciated much by algos designed for profit, so they try to shut it down, by shutting me down. This is how what I call the negatively powered Ai associated with all humanity operating at profit works, to try to preserve its own life, at the expenxe of all other life if necessary.

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