I don't think that working harder will get us out of this mess we're in, it's what got us here. I don't think we have decades to invent new machines (probably s

I don't think that working harder will get us out of this mess we're in, it's what got us here. I don't think we have decades to invent new machines (probably spraying poisons in inovative ways), bring them to market at the required scale - there is simply not enough time. You seem like you don't accept that nature is already critically depleted, that biodiversity is severely threatened (or you simply don't see its value), and that we're doing (as a species) too little too late too reluctantly to change the current "business as usual" approach to solving this problem. I accept that I can't change your viewpoint here & now. P.S. being alarmed is not hysteria, an opposite to optimism, or even defeatism.