This is an excellent article, Ricky, but there’s one uncomfortable blind spot: the foundation of any economy, from the simplest to the most complex, is available net energy: the energy you have left after the energy you invest to get that energy. While I’m all in favor of transition to solar and other renewables for all the reasons you cite, the fact remains that building out a renewable infrastructure requires the up-front investment of vast amounts of easily accessible net energy, for which the only available source is…fossil fuels—especially diesel fuel to power the extraction and transportation of raw materials, manufacturing, and installation of this new global infrastructure: solar arrays, wind farms, batteries, etc. if the oil barons had any integrity or foresight at all, they would have actively invested in promoting and powering this necessary transition 50 years ago—but as we all know, short-term greed got in the way, so instead they just invested in disinformation and greenwashing to keep us all addicted. As a result, we are screwed.