and let's not forget physical infrastructures.

Most societies have heavily invested in fixed infrastructure and housing mostly concentrated in urban conglomerates, in high-density cities. This level of complexity is very expensive in its upkeep. Both in labour and in energy. And worse: it's totally unmovable and unchangeable. So on systems a level it's an extremely expensive and massive piece of inertia.

and......the rationale underpinning it is melting right before our eyes. In most developed countries, the population is exponentially decreasing and the EROI of renewables is poor, to say the least. They will never be near our current energy put-through and certainly not at the same price. This will affect every aspect of our life from food to work. Changing the thermodynamic equation entirely.

You can be sure that society will first have to go through a tremendous sunken cost fallacy as rational and forward thinking are certainly not its strong suit. Anthropologist Joseph Henrich would even state humans are fundamentally rigged against it:). Our antiquated system of governance handicaps us even further in taking the right decisions.

Just too many things will have to change simultaneously...