No argument with your two dictums regarding the key role of energy, However, the key to finding a new source of energy that doesn’t just exacerbate the already looming problem of global warming is to find a sufficient means of funding research into the virtually unlimited and possibly non-warming zero point energy. The way to do that is to implement Monetary Gifting at retail sale and then “tax” part of the 100% increase in purchasing power of the 50% Discount/Rebate policy at retail sale IOW gift everyone with a free investment in eco-energy R & D treasury bonds at an attractive rate…to find the way to that technology. Energy is key to productivity, but money is key to action, or in the present monetary paradigm of Debt Only…inaction.

And finally, one of the signatures of historical paradigm changes is complete conceptual opposition total inversion of present temporal universe realities for instance geo-centrism to helio-centrism. In the case of the monetary paradigm its from chronic erosive monetary austerity to secure beneficial increased relative abundance and viz the energy paradigm its from finite dirty temporal universe energy to clean virtually infinite and cosmic sourcing.