To me we align in many thoughts you've had here Scott, but there is a way that we can have our cake and eat it, it seems to me, and there is nothing wrong with desiring this, in fact it might be existentially important that we do all desire it. The thing most important, it seems to me, is that we all want utopia, a heaven-like world, which appears to be not only physically possible, but actually dictated by nature, as the only survival of our species.

We can see it by auditing the energy flow from sun to Earth, and comparing this with the energy we currently exist on, still all extracted from Earth.

The first is mathematically positive, the second is mathematically negative.

The first is creation, disguised as physically impossible. The second is destruction, disguised as creation. This is how we might see it by just looking "From the inside".

But from the outside, we just look like a very young plant which started to grow its first leaves, and still doesn't know how to conduct the energy from those to itself, and its roots.

When it finds how to make that energy conduction path, from leaves to roots, is when it assures its very necessary transaition, from an infant dependent on the energy of Earth, to an adult dependent on the energy of the sun.

If it doesn't make that transition it will die.

If it does make it, it stands to grow to a size and and do beneficial things towards Earth as a fully developed adult that it has no conception of.

I think we have to want that, all of us together, to have that, we have to really want it.