Viability, consciousness, and the hope of our times

Of course this is nuts:

[the graph is dated, but you get the idea]

Population growth is paralleled by the trajectories of production, consumption, pollution, depletion, etc. Resulting in hyper-modern phenomena like megalopolises, jet-around air travel, pavement-cars-traffic, economic globalization . . . and, in general, an anthropocentric dominance of all life on the planet.

We’ve been depleting, exhausting, dominating, and burning up . . . so the trajectories must level off and then decline. The consciousness of such constitutes a revolution. It will be dated from our time.