I guess the conversation I would like to have is, are we ready? Do you think we have had advancements withheld and held back and is the economy more important than the planet? Personally I feel like everything comes back to monetary wealth getting in the way of global happiness. Star Trek really got that right.
The reason we haven’t seen a lot of results in fusion research is mostly because we haven’t spent a lot on it. Here’s A Slashdot article from a long time ago. The spending chart hasn’t changed much until about the last decade, where we’ve finally seen some advances.