Derrick Jensen's quite clear on culture... :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOOuGb_E86Q

But for those who somehow make it through the bottle neck: in https://gl-10190.medium.com/debunking-degrowth-part-ii-aded18d44652 I wrote:

“Human progress can be defined as our ability to create and maintain high levels of future uncertainty“

Uncertainty is, I believe, a useful principle to help guide society to make far wiser collective choices. It also prevents dogmatism as not all fossil fuel burning is a priori bad, some perhaps even good if you use far more intelligent metrics.

In plain English, for example, if I burn fossil fuel today to fly on a holiday to Bali then there is nothing to show for it after the fact. Used up, its energy is converted into entropy. There are now fewer choices left and no future uncertainty was created with it. Yet that same fuel could also be used to build and operate a quantum computer. Useful today for solving the equations at hand and it creates a tremendous amount of uncertainty (compound impacts) for generations to come.