Evolution and Christianity and Salvation

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emotional and medical support for veterans and the disenfranchised,

Interesting how you bring out veterans as a special class of people who need "emotional and medical support"...
I'm not saying they don't need it. They do!
But that support should be available for everyone who needs it, not just certain classes.

Your wording shows your geographic bias, while talking about a global problem.


OT
Bringing about a situation where the environment can be kept moderately free from pollution and where animal and plant and fungal and microbial species can thrive as they did before the industrial revolution is a worthy goal and one we should all be for. However, it needs to somehow be done in a way that doesn't see our modern comforts removed from us. People will always resist to losing those. And this is the real challenge - how to change the way people perceive certain comforts without it being too sudden?
The suddenness of it is what drove the Yellow Vests in France a few months ago. A high hike of gas prices as an attempt to curb fuel consumption... it can't be done when society relies on so much gas powered vehicles. But this encouragement can be gradual, it can be put as a promise to the future and gradually increase the tax on fuel to get there... in the meantime, support and assist development and implementation of alternatives - hydrogen, EV, etc... EVs seems to be the most likely option, as it's the simplest solution for now. During this transition period, people will have to think about the future cost of fuel before buying a new car and select that which is more adequate for their use.

Having solar panels at home is a great way to save some money, both in water heating and electricity. Unfortunately, it's not a solution that is available to all. In cities, it is common for people to live in apartment blocks - no amount of solar on the roof of such a building can provide enough for everyone, but it can help... shouldn't help more than 5% (area of roof, divided by the number of apartments in the building... yeah, for most cases 5% is a very high estimate), but every little bit helps. However, the cost of installing and maintaining such systems can be too high for such a low impact on each individual. It's true that the cost must be weighed over the lifetime of the system, but there will always be a need for large and more efficient centralized power plants.
On Power Plants, burning fossil fuels has been the main way of generating electricity in Europe and the US, China and almost everywhere.
The push to nuclear saw much of the greenhouse gases being removed, but the threat of an accident and all the radioactivity it brings about has seen this power source look much worse than fossil fuel burning. It certainly has a more immediate and visible outcome.
But there is another kind of nuclear, one that doesn't require heavy elements, like Plutonium or Uranium... one nuclear that isn't Fission... it's Fusion. It only requires Deuterium and Tritium. Deuterium can be extracted from seawater and the Earth's oceans are estimated to have enough of it to last us until the sun burns out.... and any country with access to water can have access to this virtually inexhaustible fuel source. Tritium can be taken from Lithium which is abundant on the Earth's crust (and in seawater too!), given that it's the lightest of all metals, but is often bonded to other elements and needs extraction. In the end, unlike a fission plant where all the fuel is radioactive to begin with, in fusion the radioactivity is produced as the two fuels combine, or fuse, producing helium and a neutron that is used to both heat up a closed circuit turbine, and to release more tritium from a lithium breeding blanket.
Humanity should be pouring all the money it can into developing this, but it is so difficult, politically, to justify spending money on something that is yet not certain. The outcome, however, will be a virtually limitless supply of power at an extremely cheap price and it will be available to practically all nations on Earth, breaking the oil monopoly of those nations that, by sheer luck, happen to be sitting on pockets of oil, or that managed to find uranium deposits.
This kind of cheap electricity is what can power our future EVs.