It would require the world to get together on a war footing to tackle threats to sustainability. Right now. Vanishingly unlikely. I suspect this is a pattern r

It would require the world to get together on a war footing to tackle threats to sustainability. Right now. Vanishingly unlikely. I suspect this is a pattern repeated throughout the universe. Once evolution kicks up a species with the behavioural flexibility to escape ecological limits on its reproductive success, it's likely just a biological inevitability that it will pullulate uncontrollably. It will thus wipe out everything in its path until its own nest is fouled and it dies back. If the species in question happens to be one that, like ours, has attained that flexibility via higher-order cognition, it will invent justifying rationalisations for its destructive activities (destiny, economic growth etc). But in the end it's just biology.