We can qualitatively and quantitatively see that humans are reaching limits to perpetual growth. Those that choose not to see, or who choose to believe in fantasies of technology and blind faith in human intention have never really stopped enjoying the fruits of petroleum civilization long enough to understand how poorly adapted our species is.

Nearly everything we know depends on the machinations of banking systems and cheap food production (cheap fossil fuels especially).

Humans have adapted to being fanatically useless to the future of places they depend on.

"There are none so enslaved as those who believe they are free." -Goethe

Most of all, modern western societies believe they have become free from the drudgery of physical knowledge and practice of basic survival.

"Somebody will do something."

No, they won't. They would rather die than live without privileges that come from the exploitation of the weak. In the case of our collective species, Nature was weak and available for torture and exploitation. Even other humans are considered part of that process to this day.

Doing things for ourselves and our places is damn harder work than burning fossil fuels to drive where we are told and 'recreate' whenever and wherever we can to distract ourselves from our uselessness.

To question the collective morality of a consumptive species is social folly. "You can't win with these people." -Paul the alien.

We know that the Bad is coming, but we can't exactly predict the 'when'. Most of the Bad is going to be people-based, not Nature, yet people will argue that it is all about whether other people are lying about Nature, not about the fact that people are lying TO Nature.

"We'll clean that up later."

"We'll find a different source of energy."

"We feel sorry about all the extinctions we are causing."

It's all fucking lies. Humans are the enshittifying species.