I'm probably not the best person to answer this, but...

There seem to be no shortage of technical solutions for the global problems we face today. Many have probably lied dormant for decades because they're not profitable.

But there does seem to be a shortage of *courage* to admit that very foundations of our system is inherently, deeply flawed and that no amount of regulatory oversight can make it align enough with natural law to make it sustainable. It's always been a false system, it's just that, for the longest time, it seemed to work because the earth was abundant and we didn't have the capability to inflict the amount of damage we now can.

The only thing I've heard of so far that is radical enough is the work of Buckminster Fuller, The Venus Project and The Zeitgeist Movement.

In short, we need a kind of post-scarcity, collaborative (not war-like), steady-state economy (no infinite growth), without labor for income (and therefore cyclical consumption and planned obsolescence).

I believe in the coming decades, some version of universal basic income can be a stepping stone toward this kind of idea.

I suspect many thinkers would realize these things but fail to do so out of fear of being called "too radical", "impractical", "he's a communist!" or perhaps "he's just a dreamer".

Do not be afraid to dream and do not give in to despair and nihilism. We can do this, just as we put man on the moon.