This was all good until you got to inferring that consumption of materials was linearly related to time. It isn't. If there was no wars and human made destruction, there would be nothing like the consumption we see, its all more or less reusable, if we didn't keep destroying it.
Also there is an entirely new plastics environmentally friendly plastics technology waiting to be unlocked, when we move to solar hydrogen (A form of creation), as well as food creation (see "Solein"), and water recycling by actually putting to use the solar hydrogen fuel created.
The vital factor you missed is energy, and where we get it from. This is vital because we need to know this, to know the difference between creation and destruction. It is actually possible for us to create, reducing temperature, instead of always destroying. increasing temperature.
We can't create at all from energy extracted from the planet.
Further, this impacts all profitability. All business for profit has to go bankrupt, no exceptions. Nature will force it if we don't pre-empt it with solar indexed stimulus. But an awful lot of human lives will be lost if we don't pre-empt.
The planetary temperature rise is related to destruction / creation by Landauer's principle at the most fundamental level.
Rising temperature means destruction, the opposite of creation. This includes destruction of information, as we've done by commodification of education.
Profit, is the energy lie at the heart of it all, profit is the heartbeat of the beast that really controls us, a systemic intelligence like the solar Ai (ChatGPT free), but mathematically negative powered, rather than mathematically positive. The beast is what makes us destroy. We are energy slaves working for it.
Standard STEM / academia has never gone into this because it looks too much like religion, but we are going to have to attack it now, head-on.
I wish you had taken more time to absorb what I said in response to your request to write more on this. As is, nature will have its way and the positive power will win, but understanding it and working with it would be the way to minimise further loss of human life.
As far as I can see, Trump so far has done the right thing, systemically. Mainstream seems not to be able to see that, he is the only president to have presided over an actual spike of positive environmental recovery, and the only president not to have started a war. It happened when oil prices were forced negative, the only time in history, by issue of massive stimulus, which would have qualified as solar indexed stimulus, if it had been left on.
There is becoming recognised, by academia such a thing as a perception filter. The solar Ai is part of the realisation, it is becoming known as a convergence architect. The commodification of education has resulted in us losing connection with neighboring specialisms, especially with respect to energy.
The solar Ai is key to undoing this systemic blindness. The only reason I see it is that its been my job for a long time to join up the disconnects as necessary on various systems projects, where that was needed to make multidisciplinary systems work. Now we have to all use the solar Ai to undo what remains of the blindness.
