Sorry to see people downvote your statement, which is clear and obvious to those who can step outside the mainstream system and its values of material growth, externalizing costs, extraction, comfort, convenience, and efficiency.

Many cultures have thrived with complementary values of personal growth, responsibility, sustainability, meaning. purpose, and resilience. Those values reinforce each other just as much and lead to health and happiness just as much, with the added benefit of not destroying Earth's ability to sustain life and society.

Many people defend the former way for creating more material wealth, which they erroneously believe necessary for health and longevity. It also creates craving and addiction, not such great happiness.

The HN community is like Robert Moses and his engineers before Jane Jacobs, thinking building just one more highway will relieve all this traffic, not realizing their would-be solutions are creating bigger problems. I'll suffer the downvotes too, hoping at least a few will reconsider their devotion to a destructive culture anyone can see is making Earth unlivable, even if we happen to be living at peak extraction, enjoying the last of the abundance. We can switch cultures. Humans have done it before.