Solutions - Where do they come from?

Solutions...where do they "really" come from?  According to an article in the Los Angeles times...

Some policy experts argue that blind faith in technology is a harmful distraction from the hard sacrifices needed to control global warming.

"The temptation is to say, 'Let's get John Wayne on horseback or Bill Gates . . . and solve this problem,' " said Dale Jamieson, director of environmental studies at New York University.

But some scientists say that the potential of such ideas cannot be ignored given the world's political paralysis on controlling emissions and its myopic addiction to cheap and dirty coal.  LA TIMES

So it's technology VS conservation VS politics...?  Or is it all three in balance and harmony?  And maybe a few additional ingredients such as education, values and discipline, collaboration, and paying attention to history lessons about how our ancestors lived, thrived, and survived challenges.

Technologists work their way through the "heavy industrial" stage to get to more practical applications of their breakthrough solutions.  The cost of that maturation is sometimes born by a society that eventually have to clean up the damage created by this long pathway.  When diversity is included, technology solutions can draw on the elegance of nature's design, history lessons, and common sense based on affordability to vett the technology.  Great designers have generous doses of those inspirational sources within one person...others work in teams of siblings or families or buddies to balance their perspectives.

But diversity has been shown time and again to be very smart in the solution process.  DIVERSITY takes into account the diverse ingredients in reality.