@Tonyprep

  I agree with your overview of humanities predicament. I also see the signs of collapse occurring all around me. Air, water, land, food, weather, inequality, resource depletion, soil depletion, poisons everywhere, and the potential of WWIII and/or another "Black Death". All of this is in all of our lives now, and we are had. Some people think we could collapse in the next 10 years. Without some drastic changes, IMO, it will be about 15.

  My "pie in the sky" solution is the rapid advancement of AI. We don't need a miracle, we need to find a way to make the computers with an energy source that won't extract too much energy that can decipher tons of data that is relevant to the problem. In doing this we can come up with ways to implement a sort of "degrowth Marxism". The computers can convince us of the practical ways of implementing a UBI. Of living and surviving with 1/10th of the crap we think we need now.

All of this will have to occur after the election this year, and after we all realize that there is no way in hell we are going to pull ourselves up by the bootstraps.