That is where you hit the jugular, imho Scott, thanks for posting.
Have you noticed how often we see this? Instead of fixing the problem, we always go after symptoms. The symptoms is always what we feel emotional about, and emotions are a kind of investment, interchangeable with money, and... Energy, actually energy from finite sources.
It boils down to what makes money. There is no money in stopping cancer, covid, planetary burning, pollution, or war, or even noting that these things are all related, hence why science has never identified that they are, there is no money in it, no profit driven organisation will fund or support such a study, quite the opposite, they will actively do things to try to stop it, or even anything leading to it.
I know because I've done the study relating them all to source, energy by extraction.
Profit is fully physically dependent on energy by extraction, any and all extracted energy.
Stop extracting energy and we stop all the problems.
We will never fix any of it by only addressing symptoms.
CO2 is a symptom, war is a symptom, crime is a symptom. Debt is a symptom. Colonialism is a symptom. Racism is a symptom. Gender warfare is a symptom. The planet burning is a Symptom. Flooding is a symptom. Increased frequency of volcanoes is a symptom. Covid is a symptom. Rising planetary temperature is a symptom. Mental illness (Most of it), is a Symptom. Extremism is a Symptom... I could go on and on.
Blaming people is a symptom, it is actually a system to blame, the system of all people depending on energy extracted from Earth.
Actually pretty much everything bad we can shake a stick at, is a symptom of this one single characteristic, and physical activity; the continued extraction of energy from our planet.
Stop that, and we stop all the bad stuff, including the war in Ukraine, and actually the war everywhere.
The reason we haven't done it so far is because there is no money in it.
So we have to change that, we need to put money in it, money for everyone. It needs to be without need for profit, otherwise nothing is achieved, the profit monster would still be alive and kicking. We need to kill that monster, dead, lifeless. Besides, it is already dying, if we just look around, it is becoming more and more difficult to keep turning profit, margins are getting thinner and thinner, more and more companies are resorting to crime, to maintain competitiveness, in an increasingly hostile business environment, besides it is all being automated as we speak, by Ai.
We have to solar indexed UBI, to fix it all.
We have to do that before there is a nuclear war, besides all the other disasters and atrocities ramping up to a finale.
We have to do it now.