...And it is characteristically thoughtfully and beautifully written.
I don't think any of us know the answer about what is sustainable and what isn't. Because we don't know what sustainability really is - is it kicking the can further down the road in some areas, while we continue to develop spiritually, politically and scientifically? I dunno the answer. I am not a self-hating human, and part of the human condition is curiosity and another part is use of better and better tools. So if we want a rich human condition, the desire to preserve some of this should be part of the glowing flame of hope, don't you think? That is basically what I am saying.
All we really know is what is NOT sustainable. I.e. What we have now. I didn't create this - it is not my utopia.
And I agree that part of the antidote to the current condition is to do the precise opposite. But I don't hold up the precise opposite as a dogma for the future of humanity. Only as an instinctive reaction.