Tidal, waves, hydro, wind, solar, geothermal, biomass. Many options to choose from, it just takes political will.
> Based on the average pace of world energy consumption over the last 50 years, if we were to extract the rotational energy just to supply 1% of the world's energy consumption, the rotation of the Earth would lock to the Moon in about 1000 years.
That’s a terrible assumption. First because the rate has been slowing (even before Covid), and second because the end result of that extrapolation is more energy than we could every hope to produce without building Dyson spheres around stars.
If you do similar calculations we’d cause severe problems harvesting that much energy from wind or geothermal as well.