There's a focus on profit-driven solutions to climate collapse because our profit-driven global model always values making more things ("men's work") and never values cleaning things up ("women's work"). That's also why most of the work traditionally done by women is unpaid.
You're only ever going to look for solutions to problems through the reality tunnel you've been conditioned to look through. For thousands of years human civilization has been valuing the making of more things and devaluing the unmaking of things, when the latter is what we need.
The oceans are our planet's best carbon sink, for example, and their ability to do that is being choked to death by plastic. Removing plastic from the oceans will not be profitable; it will cost a lot. So there's no big push to do this. It's being ignored.
Ending growth for its own sake, producing less, consuming less, paying people to stay home instead of commuting to pointless jobs, all of these would help the ecosystem far more than producing some new battery made of strip-mined materials. But there's no profit so it's ignored.
Because we've got millennia of conditioning toward the worldview of "Men's work valuable, women's work free," even the most awake among us can scan right over the obvious solutions to ecological collapse without seeing them. Because it would mean a wildly different way of being.
That's why people so often succumb to hopelessness on this front, because from the point of view we've been conditioned to look through, there is no solution. We cannot consume our way out of this. That's why this quote here rings so true for us: 
When in reality there is a solution right here under our noses, it's just not good for billionaires. It's going to cost a lot, and it's going to entail doing a lot less. But it will work, and, if we can pry the fingers of the bastards off the wheel, it can be put into action.
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