Honestly, this is my main blocker in all things related to life at this point, I’m starting to get the feeling we’re way past the major tipping points and it’s all damage control from here onward.

But I still think we should at least try everything we possibly can. I’m thoroughly a pessimist in terms of convictions, but rationally I have to accept the fact that we barely understand anything about anything.

I mean, we can even look at the decline itself as an example: everything started accelerating beyond most predictions, which pretty much indicates that we didn’t really know the full set of ramifications which came attached to every element of the equation, we’re looking at this with flawed understanding. This, to me, also indicates that there’s a possibility that we don’t much understand the flipside, either, and we haven’t even actually tried that route yet. Pessimism in thought, optimism in action.

Edit: and, yeah, I agree with you, this will be down to a paradigm shift in the very way we value and interact with our environment, and the kind of people we are now (speaking in terms of averages, not individuals) would be incapable of sustaining the necessary changes.