This looks like all good stuff, that might come to be useful at some point in tbe future. But I wring my hands that the immediate problem of the environment could be fixed so much quicker, if more people could understand the main hurdle right now.
It is technical, but not in the way expected by conventional science.
And there is a definite, concerted, seemingly subconscious effort by those furthest from the grinder, to postpone all developmemts in the area most needed.
You touched on it when you mentioned that all worthwhile efforts must help poor communities.
Poor communities are those least protected by capital, therefore first to suffer when there is any kind of economic crisis.
So it is the economics that need to be altered.
When we do that, timescales to fixes are slashed, it seems to me.
I don't know what you thought of the COP26 outcome, but personally I thought it was dismal.
I know we can do better, much better.
Actually we have to, the gravity of the problem is being seriously underestimated. We are seeing exponential phenomena, and still the mindsets influencing COP26 are obviously linear.
The very simple logic, that younger people seem to see much more clearly than older, is that we have run out of usable fuel.
When the voltage of a battery begins to drop, that means it is discharged.
After that, the voltage will drop awsy exponentially.
Then we either have to change the battery, or plug into mains, or have no further energy.
We all know this, yet most in the establishments don't serm to see the parallels with the Earth environmental problem.
The usable energy of Earth is discharged. We can't take any more without exponentially raising toxicity and hazard.
The medium we use to transfer energy to one another is money.
Every token represents energy; a number of Joules per token.
Our economic system is based on a fixed total market capability, a fixed number of Joules, "Capital",
But the only known source of energy is the sun.
All formerly usable capital energy is fuel, which is just stored energy.
So our money, and our economy, reflect the underlying structure of stored energy, and the movements of it, mostly from the areas of high yield, around the equator, to lower yield areas away from the equator, by the use of money and all related concepts, like debt, interest, credit, etc.
For short, capitalism.
The financial engines of capitalism are actually like winches, that use the energy pulled in earlier, to add ever more power to their capability to pull in yet more.
That, is the thing that locks us into being committed to extraction for the foreseeable future,, as long as we practice capitalism.
So it is the power of capitalism tjat has to be defused, before it literally drives us to extinction, by forcing us to keep extracting, regardless of the toll on life, all life.
That is what is behind my stories.
The key, and the only solution, is that money has to go free, in order to authentically represent the energy which has to come from the only source of it, which is additive to the market capabiliity (the total capital), the energy of the sun.
We are seeing the first signs of this transition, the Kardashev Hinge is starting to open, but it is moving very slow and has a long way to go.
There seems much resistance by those still investef in the old world, determined to stop, slow, or even reverse the ooening of the hinge.
Geo-Engineering, for example, would probably shut it, forever.
Hence the reason I've more or less spelled it out here, the more poople who see, and understand it, the better, I believe.