You know, your answer is the funniest one but also the closest to the truth.

This is a great article, but comes to a roundabout conclusion that endorses deregulation so that more community-affecting projects can get built. Which of course is the wrong solution since it merely doubles down on what we're already doing, so will only exacerbate our race towards environmental collapse.

I feel that the answer is in stuff like solarpunk. Specifically, helping someone else by solving our own problems. Every house off the grid reduces the demand for electricity, lowering its price so that others can afford it too. Backyard hydroponic/robotic gardens lower the price of food, and so on. After we pick ourselves up by our bootstraps, we have the resources to help others do the same.