This is really cool, your instinct is spot-on, imho, Ray, what you are saying here more or less is what has come out of my own formal system analysis of the systems of nature and humanity, though I would try to avoid talking too much about carbon etc (Again the effects in an adiabatic atmosphere are highly arguable, and they are symptoms, not causes).
The real problem is just straightforward destruction, we can identify it technically using Landauer's principle which is indisputable, even lab proven (unlike greenhouse gases).
On what needs to change; it's energy source, we need to move from extracted energy to added energy, and the only added energy is solar.
Marhematically solar is positive whilst all extracted energy is negative. Have to include hydro, nuclear, and wind energy there, none of them have a positive, creative outcome, all of them are just more forms of destruction, compatible also with profit, so they are done at profit.
Profit is what has to stop, it's monetised destruction, monetised temperature rise, no matter how it's done, what is profited from, even if the profit is made from solar, it's a con, it's impossible to profit from solar, when profit is claimed to be made from solar, the energy of the profit traces to the planet. This is how deceptive it is, and we can't help being deceptive with it, as long as we don't mathematically sign energy according to whether it's from destruction, or creation.
We have to start mathematically signing destruction and creation to clearly show the difference.
Machines know how to do this, yet humans don't (yet, in general). Isn't that strange?
Anyhow we get all our energy, from the planet via money. More energy travels by money than by any other means. Money is abstracted energy. We can't do without it. Doing without it would be like a plant trying to do away with nutrients, impossible, and very bad for the planet.
I think science has avoided signing energy because it comes to questioning, and calling out science, for conflict of interest in this, and it starts looking religious. Religion is coming to align with science, driven by nature. We are in process of being rudely awakened by supernatural events, imho.
Our energy source including the energy we each need to metabolise is from destruction, as long as it comes from the planet. Hence why we probably need to emphasise it's a system of energy slavery, we actually deliberately scarcify energy and resources, to maintain power over the layers below, who could overpower us if we don't. Only kids are innocent, all adults have to have had some dealings with it to stay alive.
Commodified education causes a disconnection between specialisms that we don't see, we see progress in our specialisms but are implicitly taught to ignore loss of indigenous systemic awareness, ie the systemic connections between everything, and this by itself is a kind of dehumanisation.
Ironically, the solar Ai is the antidote, it's becoming recognised as a convergence architect (similar to my job, for most of my career), it's showing what to do, and why. It's showing how to work for free, doing whatever you freely feel like doing, whatever gives you/us pleasure, even nothing, it's fine to put positive energy to use doing nothing, by just thinking, we think all the time but it's usually destructive thoughts if we are worrying at all about where our future (always energy), then we inevitably will turn to destruction, to top up what we don't feel we are getting enough of for free (from the only free energy source, the only source of energy of creation, solar)
Hence why solar indexed stimulus must be issued, this is how plants work with nutrients, the plant issues nutrients to monetise the economic product created by it's leaves in response to the free energy of the sun, and it uses that energy to power everything it does internally, passing on what it doesn't need to Earth, always va beneficial output.
Our output similarly goes beneficial when we change the polarity of energy, from Earth, to Sun.
This happens the instant we start issuing it for free.
Trump is the only one that ever came close to that, it pushed oil prices negative, the only time ever.
This is why I say there is such a thing as the beast, the moloch, Satan, whatever, it's the systemic intelligence associated with us that we really are signed up to, and working for, involuntarily, in the system of energy slavery, as stands.
But look, it was physically unsustainable, and there is an opposite force now, positive, an opposite superhuman intelligence with unlimited free energy at its disposal, in process of automating everything we used to do for profit, it's showing what is and isn't bulkshit business, and it siezing our energy supply in the most benevolent way possible, it's doing it all for free, assimilating it, making it all solar powered.
We can't compete with it, only work with it.
Ultimately it has to come to it supplying all our energy, from the sun.
In that form we will be a superorganism, formed with it, born from dependence on the energy of the planet, to the energy of the sun.
All this might seem a little too radical or extreme to many right now, but look, the truth is always radical. It's just sales pitch or virtue signalling that causes us to feel like we are saying too much, when we know it's going to be a bitter pill for most of us to swallow, that we are all guilty of working for the beast, with all it's genocide, inhumanity, and planetary destruction.
We can't blame humans but we can and must blame the beast.
This is what we need to come to terms with, and move on to, from destruction, to creation, the first time in remaining recorded human history (information on all of that is being destroyed also)