- A lack of clarity about actual problems. This list conflates too many things together that aren't existential threats and are aspirational values. The actual root-cause threats are climate change, politi-economic inequality, industrial meat & dairy agriculture, antibiotic resistance, pandemics, and war.
- Chicken-little learned helplessness attitude, excusing inaction.
- Lack of leadership resulting in Tragedy of the Commons from unwillingness to be the "adult".
Overpopulation isn't an existential threat. It's been bemoaned since the 1960's. It's bullshit.
The world is already at 30% generation of all energy from renewables and climbing rapidly.
FF extraction won't be as "necessary" and will be replaced by alternative products and processes.
Reality is the reality. Making the future better will take being honest, making difficult decisions soon, and enforcing specific policies to avoid real catastrophes, not academic ones.