pstarr - You're just a young PO whippersnapper. I'm about to hit my 40th anniversary of becoming PO aware. LOL.
Your list of fixes is good but we've known what needed to be done for many years. But the problem remains the same: capital. Look at the debt the US has developed just by the effort to maintain BAU. Some folks foolishly believe we can give up BAU and redirect those funds towards the "solutions". But I've yet to see one of them willing to give up even half of the BAU that supports their lifestyle. And that's the easy part: now convince the majority of the population to demand politicians degrade their lifestyles by redirecting monies to the effort away from BAU.
You know as well as I do: there's no free lunch. Forget the rest of the planet...just focus on the US. A simple question: if we don't cut back spending on BAU where will the $trillions come from to fund a Manhattan style rush to develop alternatives? Obvious we don't have 40 - 50 years to make the transition slowly...like we could have started in 1975 when the need should have been apparent? Borrow the money? That's how we've been financing BAU. The country can't put 5% down on the transition cost and finance the rest. That's what led to the mortgage meltdown. The govt made that buying frenzy by dropping interest rates so a great many could buy a house they couldn't really afford one. How did that work for the country? LOL.
I've teased about it before: I really don't need to read another post about what we need to do to deal with the energy transition. What I would be thrilled to see is anyone post a PRACTICAL and DOABLE plan to pay for the transition. As that nice smelling lady on the corner says: “First the money…then the cloths”. So: First the money…then the alts.