I am like Jed, I didn't read your whole article, apologies, but my reasoning is to say we have no clue how close to the bar we are with fossil fuels and actually extracted energy use, because we are not fully admitting responsibilty for things like forest fires.
Blaming those on arsonists or whatever just distracts from the fact that rising temperature has to reach a red line at some point where we see exponential runaway of occurrence of flash fires.
Its like heating a warehouse generating flour dust, or dust or vapor of any flammable material being blown into the air, at some point it dries out to ignite by even the tiniest static spark, and the whole warehouse blows up.
We are already on that red line temoerature.
The question now is how thick is the line, and do we really want to find out the hard way?
Add this to the fact we know profit is proportional to the energy thrown to heat from materials (fossil fuels, nuclear) or non heat energy converted to energy yielded (wind, hydro etc), and the atmosphere is adiabatic so no blanket effect, what we are measuring is direct indication of historical destruction, increase of entropy, the opposite of what life apart from humanity does, and we should see profit is the thing that has to stop.
Profit is the unsustainable energy lie.
Its this, if we dont stop it abruptly, moving abruptly to the energy of solar, the only energy that can be used to reduce entropy therefore winding the temperature back down, which can only be done on a domestic and community basis to capture the amounts of solar needed to reverse entropy on the scale necessary to reverse the damage we did by extracted energy, by dumping what we can into hydrogen, which would also keep all aerospace airborne whilst generating no pollution, circulating bot drinking water and breathable air, and even creating food independently of the conventional food chain, we can and will have the world that I think Jed dismisses as techno-utopian.
This is actually the only route to survival, and it is actually screaming at us to do.
It is empowered and incentivised, the instant we start monetising creation of economic product by solar, and this is the only way to keep the value in money.
It means the end of most capital value, but at last we will be monetising creation, not destruction as it has always been in our admitted history to date.