Did anyone really think humanity was going to some Star Trek utopia post Warp pie in the sky Type I Dyson sphere civilization?!?
Read up on Easter Island and what happened to it when its resources ran out.. Earth itself is but a larger 3D island suspended in the ocean known as the vacuum of space... And yes, Easter Island and its inhabitants had plenty of access to water and sun/solar.... but they couldnt bootstrap their way out of their problem due to constraints of time and size... but we have our constraints as a global society that while may be different in scale are equally impossible to overcome....
Recall back in 2019 that Greta girl from the EU was flying across the globe pointing fingers at countries like China, saying "How Dare You" etc etc etc
Now fast forward 3 years, fish are dead in Europe, rivers full of mercury, and its not even the dark of winter yet Europeans have already reverted back to the stone age practice of burning wood... not to mention farmers revolting and food riots everywhere, forced blackouts, supply rationing, no bottled water and toilets cant be flushed, etc
Even in the US where gas was always cheaper than in Europe the US released its strategic reserves meant for wartime to help bring down prices at the pump for the Anerican consumer.... this is about as myopic short term thinking as the type parodied in the movie Dont Look Up
Did anyone really think when push came shove that collectively as a whole humanity was ever going to do what was necessary to climb out of the Energy Trap?!? Nope instead we are diving head first into the EROEI abyss!!
Its too late for the world now, we are already past the point of no return for most on this planet, especially the West and esp USA, if its any solace, the rubicon and inflection point have been crossed long ago, long before China crossed that median line
I predict China and the Chinese civilization and the Han Chinese peoples will be the last and only one standing... which is a fitting irony considering it was the first one and longest running one.
The world might stand a better chance if we all cooperated under Chinese guidance and leadership, instead we having the dying Empire of US unable and unwilling to accept the trajectory of history and doing a scorthed earth to take the entire world down with it since if it can no longer be #1
In this way he won't sue us for TM (Trade Mark) infringement....lol