Zsolt I agree with everything you say and most of the articles you write. But something that seems missing to me, is any tie with physical nature. Everything you are saying has been said throughout history by various preachers with no real effect, other than moderate our excesses a little, it seems to me.
But now we seem to be at the physical "End times", and we have sufficient technology to actually influence how it turns out, I think it is long overdue we tied together human nature with the physical aspects of nature which must be respected, for us to successfully negotiate what looks like a physical energy cul-de-sac, which we are careening down as a species.
With the best will in the world, we won't do this, as long as we are blind to some basic physical facts about how nature deals with energy.
To me, a Systems Engineer studying this physical energy problem since 2017, watching it unfold, analysing all of the dependencies using formal Systems Engineering techniques (At my own expense), I see it all trace to a basic energy rule in nature that sounds kind of religious, so many scientists and definitely most economists don't like it as yet, they will have to accept it in the end;
Nature is the grand authority, her currency is Energy. The only issuer and enforcer of it is the sun. We have to use it, or burn.
I can't think how to put it more succinctly whilst retaining the whole meaning, but am always open to suggestions.
We can see it at work all around us, the whole of nature is solar powered. Everything we ever really considered as energy in our economy is not energy at all, but fuel, and other finite stores of energy on Earth.
Only solar actually adds Joules to Earth, therefore should be the seen as the most valuable thing we can imagine.
A plant creates a tiny energy deficit with Earth, when it draws some energy from Earth to grow itself to the point where it starts to shoot leaves.
Those leaves then start to absorb solar energy, and from that point on the plant transports energy from the sun to all things needing it in nature, mostly via the nutrients flowing through it.
Money is our mechanism waiting to serve the function of nutrients, when we let it, and we already started to grow leaves in the form of solar farms all over Earth..
After the plant goes solar, it pays back its energy deficit to Earth many times over. Without that, there would be no life. With that, there is life. In a way, we might say even that is life.
We are consciously denying this rule, as long as we have the technology of solar energy, and as long as we are aware of the rule, but not allowing money to serve the pupose of nutrients in nature.
I've explained technically how we can work with it, and we even saw it demonstrated once, when oil prices went negative. The details are in my stories about Kardashev Money.
The question of whether or not we will continue as a species appears to have a hard physical limit. We can choose to jump over this limit, by copying what plants do in nature as a species, untited by that sole aim, or not.
As things stand, we have not made the choice. By default, we are headed for extinction, it seems to me.
