You're not wrong. People are too comfortable to do anything though, so failure is likely inevitable. Same thing has been happening at least since the Mayans...

You're not wrong. People are too comfortable to do anything though, so failure is likely inevitable. Same thing has been happening at least since the Mayans... they refused to give up their lifestyles even in the face of their own surrounding natural resources being eaten up from their fast expansion, and they eventually died off.