Appreciate your proportionally appropriate rant on eco-optimism...it's not helpful and "hope" needs to be earned through action. I wrote a piece (link below) that you might appreciate (was in a similar vein to yours) at the start of the year....thanks for sharing your thoughts and frustrations...some days can be tough.

https://barrett-h-stuart.medium.com/happy-2022-to-zombieland-u-s-a-ef0956ad6c7b