In a vacuum, you might have an excuse for saying that. But we are not in a vacuum. We know what bad things are coming via climate change, and we are seeing bad

In a vacuum, you might have an excuse for saying that. But we are not in a vacuum. We know what bad things are coming via climate change, and we are seeing bad effects already. Furthermore, we have every reason to believe that the interaction between current geopolitical systems and the technological systems that support food production will be severely strained by what's coming, and is strained by what's already here. It is simply too late in the game for deliberately uninformed speculation about what utopias await us after the global demise of saltwater shellfish, for example, or after the collapse of thermohaline circulation, or the thawing of methane hydrates. This isn't some game of chicken that will be won by not being "afraid of change." This is the recognition of an unfolding global catastrophe, and it's irresponsible to bury our heads in the sand with wild essentialist speculation about how "resistant to change" we are. Whether we survive or not will not depend on essences like "adaptability" or "resistance"; it will depend on contingencies like whether the boreal forests burn in spring or fall of 2023, or whether political instability in a crumbling Russia results in the launching of nuclear weapons and how the West responds.