The biggest vice of intellectuals is to talk about abstractions like "system" and "neoliberalism" as if their meaning for most people is as concrete as their pension, mortgage payment and mortgage insurance, house's flood insurance, child's education and getting to the end of the month without credit card debt.
Until you have a detailed road map of specific energy policy changes that don't destroy people's lives as they live them--driving to work, heating their homes--you will never have sufficient popular support to implement a green transition.
Unlike a decade ago climate catastrophe and extreme weather events now have the attention of anyone but the "don't look up" Republican ostriches with their heads up their asses ignoring how insurance companies are leaving regions at greater risk of extreme weather events.
Political revolutions that succeeded in permanently transforming their societies--the English in 1649 and 1688, the American from 1776-1787, the French from 1789-1815--were not led by people who thought let's overturn the old order and see what happens. They understood that all societies run on norms, rules, law and its millions of contracts and regulations to implement and enforce laws. They also understood their goal was to overturn the old order's oppressive rulers above the rules hierarchies with an order that put new rules above the rulers and limited both state and private power with the rule of law. All your political nihilism will yield is either the limitless rule by law mass murder of regime of the failed Bolshevik revolution of 1917-1991 or the fragmented gangsterism of the privatized violence of Central America.
Your hatred of capitalism and contemptuous dismissal of legal systems with "just stop thinking inside the box" ignores a simple fact: capitalism is an airplane that to be redesigned has to be kept in flight. Crashing it and the millions of norms, rules, laws and contracts under which we all live will yield only gangsterism, privatized violence and warlordism. Human history teaches us that if you ignore the fragility of societies' norms and institutions in order to save a fragile planet, you will save neither and crash both.
Trumpism and the MAGA cult's norm demolition has given us just a small foretaste in Charlottesville, Pittsburgh, Poway, the Capitol on January 6 of what this means in practice. Naive Americans need only ask exiled Russians, Chinese, Syrians, Lebanese, Belarussians, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Sri Lankans, Egyptians, Iraqis, Algerians, Libyans, Afghans, Iranians, Central Americans and West Africans from the coup belt what this means in practice.
As far as what the market is good and not good for, Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel's "What money can't buy (and shouldn't be for sale)" provides a good model for limiting the market's reach. https://scholar.harvard.edu/sandel/publications/what-money-cant-buy-moral-limits-markets
Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson shows how difficult it is develop institutions that thread the needle between too much state power that crushes all initiative and innovation and too little state power that allows the chaos of privatized violence and gangsterism to metastasize. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Nations_Fail
You and Ray Katz ignore its, and history's, lessons at your peril.
