Yes, Hasbeen, there are lots of self-satisfied "bright sparks" gracing the stage in Blackadder.
Seeing as you often mention your sailing exploits, I'll liken you to Captain Rum, who didn't know the way to the Cape of Good Hope. What he usually did was sail round and round the Isle of Wight until everyone got dizzy then head for home...not unlike the style you lot adopt in your arguments.

Thinking within a fixed circle of ideas or ideological imperatives, limits the questions; and the answers; and the available choices!
We need carbon neutral or carbon negative energy, which can and ought to be supplied for significantly less than current coal-fired power.
People on fixed incomes, most of us, simply cannot absorb higher energy costs and the flow on price rises, on the very staples of life; the direct consequence of ever increasing energy costs.
Every western style economy rests on just 2 pillars, energy and capital!
Our economy is dependant on around 70% domestic discretionary spending; and, increasing utility/service charges eats into that; creating a downward spiralling contraction, with shrinking tax receipts, rising unemployment, bankruptcies, and foreclosures the consequence; followed just as predictably; by more of the same.
We must invest public money in very low cost energy provision.
First, we need to establish algae farms that use vastly less water and absorb all the carbon we create; providing in return, all the very low cost bio fuel, we could ever possibly need, indefinitely.
That course will ensure we can safely expand our coal market, without also expanding carbon production.
We can collect all our biological waste from high rise buildings, villages etc and turn it, via solid state technology, into energy that will power all those villages etc, for around a third of the cost of coal-fired power.
Endlessly reliable wave power, will use the energy of the sun, in the most economical way possible and provide peak demand power; for significantly less the the current cost of coal-fired power.
Yes our world is over populated!
However, the only humane option, is to educate the great uneducated masses, understanding that this is the only viable strategy; that actually has been shown to actually work; as effective population control. Rhrosty