Why do we need to do all that? Why do we need unlimited energy? Can you really not foresee problems with that, if everyone could drive/fly/boat as long and as fast as they want because fuel is basically free?

We now live in a 1.5 degree warmer world. We can empirically study how much that level of warming is costing us already. It turns out that the measurable effects of warming on GDP absolutely dwarf the costs of mitigation. Ignoring climate change constraints in developing civilization will make us all poorer. Again, the effect of warming on GDP is measured, not postulated.

I agree! I think we should be just chucking excess heat off of earth with massive mirros or micro waves.

There is surely no way we stop producing, even if the world burns to a crisp.

Embrace the nihilism is my current stance. People think they need optimism to think and feel ok. Turns out you can feel perfectly fine and productive when you assume the world is coming to an end as well!

Its just a matter of perspective, what matters is having a clear plan for what you think will happen, and executing on it. It doesnt matter if the plan may be grim to others.

This is just reality, reality doesnt care about someones feelings.

Well, Drilling like Hydro has very large ecological impacts at scale.

Really should just be building a lot more nuclear plants to drive energy costs to 0 but that's too much government overreach or something ...

Why do we need to create and use so much? People aren’t happier now, they are less happy. That’s all that matters. And the world population isn’t growing like we thought. We need to use much less. As a former guy that grew microbes, I remember what happened to flasks where the bacteria just use all the resources they can, the whole flask dies.

Are you describing accelerationism?

Build and create what? More cheap plastic junk for consumers? Big SUV cars for middle class that could very well drive a Corolla? Cloud services delivering social media that negatively impacts people's mental health, but makes billionaires a lot of money?

Most energy out there already goes to causes that do nothing whatsoever to advance humanity's future or to improve people's lives. Burning fossil fuels to produce that waste of energy is absolute madness.

If we are to waste energy, it should at least be produced in a manner that doesn't doom future generations.