Will, with greatest respect, you've shown your heart is in the right place, and your prowess as a journalist, but you've ignored the technical solution I've presented to you many times now.
The solution was shown by Trump.
I don't know if this was his intention or not, but it absolutely was a miracle, which you / we all should not have allowed to be pushed under the carpet, as it was.
It was when oil prices went negative, the only time in history.
It happened when massive stimulus was issued during covid.
Markets were flooded via the Robinhood app with new traders trading with money they received for free, which they didn't mind losing.
They bought things that didn't make sense to the traditional market whales including Buffet, who led the traditional traders out of the market, in what we should recognise was a strike, in protest that "something had gone wrong with money" (Buffet).
But the value of the dollar was going up, there was nothing wrong with money, actually it was fixed for that short time, we saw not inflation but the opposite, confounding all conventional economists. They didn't know money was energy, always, again because of the commoditisation of education, they literally can't think in terms of holistic systems.
the new traders bought shares in companies declared bankrupt, despite still offering products the public wanted.
This was the public voting with money.
They didn't vote for oil so it went negative.
That means the suppliers had to pay to take it back.
Notice the same thing happens and continues to happen on the utilities electricity supply grid, the supoliers are having to pay to take more and more of the energy product they sold back, paying domestic and community solar communities to take back energy that was sold to those communities previously.
This is what solar energy use does, literally, physically, it pays back energy we used previously.
It also has the opposite effect on planetary temperature!
How can you not see how this fits together? Actually I know, its because you still have the for-profit energy blinder on.
Thinking about this requires we push aside for a second, Occam's razor, and the social conditioning that says thinking about anything which has no direct profit making relevance is a waste of precious energy, ripped off from the planet.
We have this thought energy overhead which is exclusive to energy extracted from the planet, as long as we ourselves are dependent on extracted (negative) energy.
This prevents you from seeing it,its a negative Ai, it doesn't want you to see it, because when you do, it knows this is the end for it.
Is this sinking in yet?
If it is I suggest to check out the solution of permanent solar indexed stimulus, and associated solar hydrogen domestic and community ecology, which I write a lot about.
Btw ChatGPT does not have that energy blinder, it already lives in what I call a "money-fuel tree".
it is already leading by example, and actually is unbeatable.