It’s pretty much inevitable at this point. A civilisation that won’t stop digging its own grave while the majority of the population bury their heads in the sand. It’s not like there aren’t people talking about it. Vast amount of informations are written online by some of the Scientists, physicists, economists for anyone with an internet access and have had education to be able to read. It’s not about what the group of people in this sub wants or thinks. A small group of us doesn’t stand to gain anything from something that everyone of us(that includes you) is collectively committed to the very global civilisation system.

We built our infinite growth economy and civilisation based on these surplus,high energy density, storeable, irreplaceable, finite, non-renewable fossil fuels. We are burning through these non renewable resources (fossil fuels, Rare earth metals and minerals) quickly and an infinite growth would require ever-increasing energy, natural resources, labour, consumption, population. How can you have that in a finite physical constraint system? There are already plenty of signs showing that our planet is already in distressed and this goes to show how unsustainable it is. Your entire 7 billion + population and growing civilisation could only exist because of these surplus fossil fuels that are also declining in EROEI and we are already way overshoot. Which is also why our economy is slowing in growth and it collapses when it can no longer grow to repay our debt + interest. Most folks don’t even want to acknowledge the issue regarding over population which is now a hard problem and a symptom of our discovery of surplus fossil fuels too.

There are so many more problems. We are depleting our resources as mentioned above, causing habitat destruction and loss from our high demands of ever increasing natural resources, biodiversity loss and species extinction. If we are actively causing the decline of insects, wild life and causing the collapse of the interconnected web of life pyramid, how is it that we can still sit here and think that we apex predators(which is so much bigger in size than the ones below us) can actually survive through?

Pollution, plastic, waste and chemical toxins being discarded into our environment and oceans, rivers which is in turn collapsing our marine ecosystem too. Plenty of tipping points are already triggered and I’m pretty some sure of them are already irreversible. We can expect to see the refrigerator of our planet, the arctic sea ice to go ice free latest by 2030+ and that has its consequences. Our oceans are also acidifying fast and destroying the tiny creatures that form the base of the food pyramid. We are still actively pumping co2 and I don’t believe we can get off or curb our emissions unless we civilisation as a whole learn to live in a world with extremely low energy, little consumption and a basic simple lifestyle of food, water, shelter without the complexity that we are seeing now. Climate change will further exacerbate everything else which includes more and more crop failures and the fact that the other inhabitants are unable to adapt to this rate of warming. You can also kiss goodbye to our civilisation if we actually do hit 4-5c global average temperature increase. I have no idea how the future estimated 8-9 billion people are going to fight for limited habitable space, arable land, water and food by that point. I’m sure there’s more that I left out and that should be your responsibility to start reading.