The entitlements of late modernity are not compatible with the realities of life on a finite planet and they do not even make us happy.
But we may well follow that path for a while longer, as it leads us deeper into dystopia and leaves us more dependent on fragile technological systems that few of us can understand or can imagine living without.
— Dougald Hine, At Work in the Ruins: Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics and All the Other Emergencies, 2023 (via)