Using the battery of Earth analogy, we might say it's a battery trickle charged by the sun, and this might have survived for millions or billions of years, if we beings of technology had never been added to the mix, because before that, the charge rate from the sun more or less was equivalent to the rate of consumption / creation by life on Earth.
If we accept that the purpose of all life is to reverse entropy, successful life progresses by doing this more and more, in other words it grows.
When all is well, most of the energy coming to Earth is constantly converted to things other than heat, and overall, this results in entropy reversal.
But now we've been added, our natural outcome was that we used technology to accelerate our rate of energy processing.
This is like a motor that has wound up, a giant machine, which churns out all kinds of things which are not heat.
If we viewed that alone, it looks like we created, but in the bigger picture, actually we just destroyed, because all of the energy we used to do this had to be extracted, from things created previously in slow time by nature. The net result of our activity was destruction, that we seem to have convinced ourselves was creation.
If we see that it was destruction, and now we have in theory at least, the capability to switch the input energy powering all of our "creative" processes, entirely to solar, generating valuable product which even replaces fossil fuels, this completely changes the outcome of our activity.
Then our activity moves from being one of destruction, to creation.
Instead of being a load on the battery, rapidly discharging it, we will be adding to the charge rate on Earth. rapidly charging it.
All of the formal systems analysis work I've done on this since starting on it seven years ago, indicates this to be the case.
There is not a single piece of hard physical, mathematical, or logical evidence refuting this. But there seems an infinite amount supporting it.
Of course the proof has to be in the pudding, we can never know anything for sure with 100 percent certainty, and we know this in large scale Systems Engineering programs in general. In those we are usually happy with eighty percent or better "confidence", this usually results in success.
To me it looks like 98 percent confidence, that we are actually in something like the same position as a plant when it first forms leaves, or a chicken in process of breaking open its egg, or a baby on its umbilical being cut, we are actually on the cusp of being born, as an intelligent species.
Birth in general, all births, of all living things, is a switch from being dependent on its mother host or egg for its own energy supply, to the energy of the greater environment, beyond the mother host or egg.
I don't see us being much in control of that, there are forces much greater than any human, much greater than any subset group of humans, in control, and the chances are that we will make this transition, because most births are successful, why would this one be any different.
Individually, or even as a collective, we can choose to understand this, and work with it, or understand it and try to work against it, or just remain oblivious and go with the flow.
Working with it, short circuiting the likely cost in terms of pain (Stopping more wars, more genocide, more killing), would be the clever way to streamline our birth.
This would be like us streamlining our body, as the baby being born, to ease our rapid, quick transition to birth.
The short circuit needed is the immediate issue of solar indexed stimulus.
Otherwise, as long as we keep enforcing the scarcity and poverty, despite creation of actual physical economic product from solar, the pain will keep getting worse, the planet will continue to deteriorate, the money will keep devaluing.
I know youve probably heard me saying this before, Ricky, but I feel like I need to keep saying it for the benefit others more than your good self, the platform never promotes the non profit message very much, sorry to be banging on with the same old message :)