Many share your opinion, but I think it really wrong: through "forced degrowth" we're saddling future generations with a problem in a way very analogous to poll

Many share your opinion, but I think it really wrong: through "forced degrowth" we're saddling future generations with a problem in a way very analogous to pollution and wrecked climate... And it's much much nastier problem that they won't have even the remotest chance to engineer their way out of that we really don't like to think about. The problem of being left behind! Of being a laggard civilization/species/etc. That will manifest either in pseudo-predictable ways when humans meet other civilizations and it goes like with the conquistadors and amerindians (conquest and extermination, minor asimilation). Or it goes in an inconprehensible for us way but probably still really bad when Earth-origined-super-AGI meets X-origined-super-AGI that is more advanced than it and either canibalizes it or preemptively extincts it before even making contact, for its/their own self-preservation. Any slow down is a silent cosmological civilizational technical debt trap in a way! At least by temporarily increasing risk of extinction by wrecking some parts of our life support systems a bit we can have the hope of whatever comes after us (I don't believe much in the future of bio-humans beyond 2-5 generations from now) has at least a fighting chance to engineer their way out of the mess we're leaving them, and at least they'd have their science well sharpened and minds battle hardened by the trials!