Our well being should not be reliant on ever increasing energy usage & population growth, both of which are only concluded to be necessary when conceding to the current economic system that is based on ceaseless compounding interest and debt. We're on a finite world with finite resources. Stability is necessary for long-term survival of our society. ----- Fossil fuels are a spectacularly valuable natural resource that should be conserved and only used as absolutely needed. Instead, industrialists have concocted new ways to market and use them as much as possible as quickly as possible. Their goals have been to hoard wealth and control & exploit the people under them, both by employing/enslaving them, and by creating a society where everyone relies on their products. The betterment of humanity was never part of the equation, it was a marketing campaign. ----- What we have is an illusion of "better standards of living", where in actuality what we have is; record levels of mental illness, suicides, depression, chronic sickness, poisoned rivers, poisoned farmland, toxic food, and insect, bird, & sealife populations declining catastrophically. We're all so entertained and distracted by the pretty lights and worthless trinkets we spend our lives working to accumulate, that almost nobody realizes their lives are completely controlled and devoid of meaning. ------ Yes, climate change is a scam to control and exploit people, but at this point our society is terminal whether we keep using fossil fuels or stop entirely. The only thing that will change is the sequence of events that bring us to the collapse. Weather and climate changing has nothing to do with that hard actuality.