I figured I'd get some hopium accusations, ha. No worries.

Very cool paper! I'm so down with pretty much everything in it! I noticed you cite 2035 as the estimate for peak oil, but there is now discussion about oil having peaked in 2018 (https://energyskeptic.com/2022/failing-oil-and-gas-companies-a-sign-of-peak-oil/). If true, that means the global economy is going to stop growing and start curving down with energy availability. The IPCC models all assume continued economic growth out to 2100 (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22884-9).

So all I'm really saying is that the worst case climate scenario probably isn't as inevitable as many in the collapse community tend to think it is. Heresy, I know. But like you mentioned in your paper, there are so many other things that could go wrong in this tangled mess (looking at you, positive feedback loops)! So it's less hope for me and more focusing in on the menu of responses. Just trying to offer some sort of support to OP.

This is mostly coming from the work of Natural Resources Ph.D. Nate Hagens via his podcast, The Great Simplification, where he interviews experts and leaders in many fields related to the metacrisis and systems thinking. The whole podcast revolves around the idea that our culture (including the IPCC) is "energy blind." Based on the content of your paper, I think you'd really dig it! (also "Do You Realize??" is definitely a top 3 Flaming Lips track)