Your article does a great job of summarizing the impossible dilemma we are in with regards to energy and growth. Painful shrinkage is the logical outcome. Then you have to also throw in the disruptive consequences of our climate crisis regarding global overheating (via CO2 & methane emissions both ongoing and already accumulated in the atmosphere). One’s imagination is not comforted by what appears to be our path to massive economic disruption, billions of people dying, wars breaking out to grab resources, and so on. Thinking in the short term is more comfortable. The economic system we are living in doesn’t really reward actions intended to have long term consequences. But of course the energy systems we use now to maintain our short term comfort and growth are the root causes of what drives our demise. All of the bad consequences will continue to become more evident in our short term mindset for the remainder of this decade. By 2030 real panic will be taking over.