That's sad to hear- people on the internet can seem harsh, I thinks its probably too easy to forget there's a real person behind most questions.
It's been like a month now, and I still don't really think LLMs are solarpunk, trying oto make them more.open and community based sounds worthwhile though, so good luck with it!
Massive side point, but if you're interested on "empowering people who don't want to deal with technical details of coding" check out ideas as a whole around "end user programming". It's a pretty broad church, but there's some cool stuff happening under that term that it sounds like you'd like.
This bits interesting. Obama pushed hard for Asia's involvement in climate commitments, and Biden made policy decisions based on attempting to reduce climate impact.
There's definitely a sizable amount of American's who do care great about climate change, obviously though that doesn't include the current government.