So don't take it. But don't complain when you end up losing out to people, institutions, and countries that haven't adopted this defeatist attitude.
As for Collapse: Diamond is wrong on many of his specifics (e.g. Easter Islander depopulation) but even in his own framework, collapse comes from a lack of ingenuity, a sclerotic loss of the ability for a society to solve problems.
Don't you think it's safe to assume that technologies might not save us and that we should work on some alternatives, just in case the first scenario doesn't work?
> collapse comes from a lack of ingenuity, a sclerotic loss of the ability for a society to solve problems.
So you're saying that the _only_ way of preventing collapse is by technological advance? And that we should not try to make sociaty sustainable without growth, or at least to do some reasearch on how that might be possible?