Without the ups and downs, it's a flatline.

Yes, we are burning through a few billion years of stored sunlight at an incredible rate, but in the big picture, it's like that teenage/young adult stage, where we go a little crazy.

How else do we get the idiots out of the pilot's seat, other than having it crash and burn?

The real question is the lessons to be learned.

Here is my take on that;

https://medium.com/@johnbrodixmerrymanjr/peeling-away-the-layers-of-performative-social-mania-62402fc18336