Even just the people flying to conferences to talk about it, even just youtubers doing that destroys a whole lot. And then there's the pollution costs of going

Even just the people flying to conferences to talk about it, even just youtubers doing that destroys a whole lot. And then there's the pollution costs of going to work and heating the work place, running the machines, and so on. Though that doesn't have to be that way, and if you just consider energy, using that for stuff can also simply mean not letting energy the sun throws at us anyway go unused. No, we don't HAVE to destroy and make go extinct in order to thrive, however, currently we do that, and we shove the costs on the less fortunate and future generations. If that weren't true, we could point fingers at people who say that maybe, just maybe Carlin was right and we're just a virus with shoes, and call them nihilists. For now, let's not use their overshooting the goal as a fig leaf for not even shooting for that goal. I can't deny it, it was my first thought too, "maybe it just means that more people are catching on".. I mean who and what exactly are we working for? Why do we need more and more, to compete more and more against each other? Can we rethink that just a little? As the quote by Lily Tomlin goes, the trouble with the rat race is, even if you win, you're still a rat; if the only use for capital is to produce more capital, ad infinitum, what's the point? If everybody is just reacting to supposed necessities, and not acting anymore, you don't even need to look towards single cell organisms, even a river can do that. And we even talk about "AI" as some sort of black box that will sort everything out (who knows how, that's the point of it being smarter than us after all). What has to be destroyed to create that is intellectual honesty and maybe access to the full range of human emotions. For starters. But yes, this is bikeshedding. I know nothing about the subject on the level of the article, but it reminds me of chips on my shoulder. And though I also disagree with it the way it is put, I agree with the heart of the sentiment. We don't just need to work smarter so we make better use of the resources and time we have, but also produce smarter with that productivity. Though I don't have an answer either, just complaints and grievances. But it's also wrong to dismiss those because there is no answer for them yet - the dismissal plays a role big in them not having been answered yet. A justified criticism that is not constructive is still worlds better than not even that.