Generally I agree with you that the economic growth is all costs is not the way to go and we need to consider people and their happiness much more than we do no

Generally I agree with you that the economic growth is all costs is not the way to go and we need to consider people and their happiness much more than we do now. However, for possible extinction scenarios like massive climate change or the inability to leave earth when that unseen asteroid rushes towards us, I think we need to work much much faster than we are working right now and unhappiness of some is an acceptable loss. I understand though that others might have different value judgements.