I liked your article. This bit is really well stated:
All organisms exist on a knife edge. Constantly needing to absorb energy, transform it and utilize it for life processes against the will of the universe. By some definitions, this is all life is. Bounded microenvironments capable of transforming energy to maintain low entropy states.
In a closed system, entropy and disorder will increase, and energy will dissipate. These are the rules that all organisms live by.
However, your conclusion is weak.
In a single hour, the amount of power from the sun that strikes the Earth is more than the entire world consumes in a year.
The solution to our problems is freely available, 100% clean, and will never run out...
Really?
People have been saying this exact same thing since the 50's. Fifties sci-fi writers used almost the same words even when talking about "THE FUTURE".
Saying we have to transition to clean energy is a restatement of the obvious. The difficulty has always been, how to make that happen.
I think we are past the point for a "clean and orderly" transition to happen. Here's what Dr. James Hansen, a "Pioneer" of modern Climate Science has to say about Global Warming.
Improved knowledge of glacial-to-interglacial global temperature change implies that fast-feedback equilibrium climate sensitivity is at least ~4°C for doubled CO2 (2xCO2), with likely range 3.5-5.5°C.
Greenhouse gas (GHG) climate forcing is 4.1 W/m2 larger in 2021 than in 1750, equivalent to 2xCO2 forcing.
Global warming in the pipeline is greater than prior estimates. Eventual global warming due to today's GHG forcing alone -- after slow feedbacks operate -- is about 10°C.
Human-made aerosols are a major climate forcing, mainly via their effect on clouds. We infer from paleoclimate data that aerosol cooling offset GHG warming for several millennia as civilization developed.
A hinge-point in global warming occurred in 1970 as increased GHG warming outpaced aerosol cooling, leading to global warming of 0.18°C per decade.
Aerosol cooling is larger than estimated in the current IPCC report, but it has declined since 2010 because of aerosol reductions in China and shipping. Without unprecedented global actions to reduce GHG growth, 2010 could be another hinge point, with global warming in following decades 50-100% greater than in the prior 40 years.
Hansen states that warming since 2014 has accelerated to 0.36C/decade. That's 2C of warming in the next 60 years.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04474
Hansen's latest "Global Warming in the pipeline" study.
In the face of that everything else is rapidly becoming meaningless.
If we do not declare a "Planetary Emergency" and start an immediate program of Carbon Drawdown and Emissions Reduction. Then the next 50 years are going to be us, slagging ourselves back to a Paleolithic population level living around the Arctic Circle.
Start voting GREEN like your children's lives depend on it. Start taking "direct action" against the Fossil Fuel Elites. Start speaking out at every opportunity.
Evangelize on Climate Change like nothing else matters.
Because, realistically, nothing else does.
I also write on the "Climate Crisis".
