The cost of living in "good times" where things are plentiful due to the status quo and existing policy is we have to listen to idiots who claim we're doing it all wrong and that we need to change our ways. These people's voices are squashed when times aren't so good because we have to actually succeed and get things done. But they'll be back once things are back to being good, complaining about everything, claiming the world is ending and that nothing is sustainable and that everything is broken.

Because, as we have seen here, most of the green solutions to our industrial problems are not really viable at scale at the present moment. If they were this war would have been trivially ended since Russia would have no power over the developed world.

This war is a perfect object lesson in exactly how dependent we are globally on fossil fuels. That we are more decades than we have left away from solving our hydrocarbon problem. And that if we do happen to cross peak oil in a few years (which will actually be good for climate change) the result won't be a transition to green energy but global war on an unprecedented scale.

People paying close attention have been pointing this out for decades but dismissed as "pessimists" by green idealists.

The best solution for this is years of weaning the soil off of chemical inputs towards a no-till, cover crop, managed grazing solution. It takes a few years of regrowing the soil before it can start to output as much as a synthetically fertilized field.

Compost takes years to make, and is bulky. Ammonia-based fertilizer can be made on an industrial scale with continuous processes and is basically pure nutrients for plants.

See Sri Lanka.