Wow - Like your thinking/writing hints toward solutions of degrowth versus the status quo GDP growth by any means necessary insanity we currently live by in the modern world, post Industrial Revolutions. Anyone who understands how exponential numbers and Ecology 101 work combined with human toxic consumption, throw away life styles - hard to be optimistic about the future. Many thinkers who put all their eggs in the secular science basket and have thrown away the baby with the bath water as far as any spiritual beliefs - always think that science can always solve the problems it creates. At this point the definition of insanity is like Einstein once said - when one makes the same error over and over thinking there will be a different outcome.