I don't believe that there is a solution and further more I just don't care. I imagine that this is how people feel when they say "I hate politics". No one likes to be pushed around by people who's passions, convictions and certainties they don't share.
When people say they hate politics they mean that they don't like to get dragged in where they don't care about the solution. This is a case of it being somebody else's problem. There are to many causes out there for any one person to devote personal energy to all of them. We each chose our own causes and leave the rest to people who care about them.
When people say they hate politics they also mean that they don't like it when they can't figure out what the right answer is. For a great many passionately felt issues there is no possibility of a clear cut solution. People don't want to get involved when there is no clear solution. In the case of lake source cooling I will be affected by what happens but I do not trust either side to have my best interest at heart.
When people say they hate politics they mean that they don't like being manipulated. When people do feel strongly about an issue they try to convince others to feel the same way. This is natural human tendency we want the people around us to share our values. This is also a vitally important part of the democratic process. One needs to convince other people of the correctness of ones position in order to get things done. Advocating a position is manipulative, but people only feel manipulated when they don't want to do the thing being advocated.
Unfortunately the same people who think "politics" is a dirty word think "manipulate" is too.
But is that really what politics is?
Say there were three friends A, B and C. Then one day B and C had a fight and could no longer stand to be in the same room. Now A is having a party and wants B and C to both be there but neither of them will come if the other is there. From A's point of view the fight between B and C is not her problem, there is nothing she can do about it and now they are forcing her to chose between them or lose both of them. This is what people who say they hate politics mean by politics.
But think of it from C's point of view. He has good reasons for avoiding B, he is choosing to avoid B as the best possible solution to his problem, and does not feel that he is forcing anything on anybody. He is just minding his own business. He doesn't think he is playing politics.
When someone holds one opinion if a situation affects them and a different opinion if the same situation doesn't affect them we call them a hypocrite. People who say they don't like politics are hypocrites. We all feel strongly about things that others around us don't care about. We all take action to met our needs even when others don't see or have those options. Our actions and positions do affect others in ways they don't affect us.
We all engage in politics whether we admit it or not. I chose to be honest about it.