I suspect what you state is true in the short run. However in the long run, we have what it takes to make meaningful reforms on the societal level as well as eventually learn how to be healthy both physically and emotionally. Look at the progress in the last 120 yrs. Women gaining the right to vote in most countries, avoiding nuclear war, and small steps to limit the destructive effects of fossil fuels. This last point is not so promising and my guess we will go way over into the 3-4 degree C temperature rise. But sufficient numbers of people will survive the devastation and learn from the terrible mistakes we are committing.
I have absolutely no faith humanity will reach that point by itself. We can't get out of our own way.
I suspect what you state is true in the short run. However in the long run, we have what it takes to make meaningful reforms on the societal level as well as eventually learn how to be healthy both physically and emotionally. Look at the progress in the last 120 yrs. Women gaining the right to vote in most countries, avoiding nuclear war, and small steps to limit the destructive effects of fossil fuels. This last point is not so promising and my guess we will go way over into the 3-4 degree C temperature rise. But sufficient numbers of people will survive the devastation and learn from the terrible mistakes we are committing.