The solution I see is Kardashev Money.
I've written all about it with many stories.
It isn't my solution, more an observation, of what is the only solution.
The reason I see it is because I was trained to see it.
Now I am trying to help others to see it by presenting the art of seeing it as a new Engineering discipline.
I am now at more than 260 articles in Medium to that end, underpinning many thousands of comments like this one in response to articles like yours.
If I seem to have jumped on articles like yours in the past, its because I might have noticed deceptive information which I believe prevents folk seeing the simple truth of how we can fix all of the problems with Kardashev Money, with ultimately no need for any scaling down, in fact we will celebrate every increment in additional capability to do good, it seems to me.
We will get this by demanding free money on one hand, and solar power on the other.
https://eric-bott.medium.com/the-fuel-tree-5ef66be03c4