You think infinite growth with finite resources is possible? This should be good.
We're constantly finding gigantic reserves of resources. We are closer to being able to synthesize all the resources we want or need than we are to inflexibly running out of them.
Why do you think this will suddenly change, without precedent? There is no reliable science behind 'cooking the planet beyond livability'. We already have adaptations (carbon extraction) for that even if it were true.
Sudden change, without precedent... sounds like a black swan event, which ironically we have a term for. But there is precedent. Many civilizations before us have collapsed due to lack of resources, or mismanagement, or expanding so much they became unmanageable; this would just be the first time a globally connected civilization did so.
Exponential growth tends to become sigmoidal the further out you look, so you're taking it on faith that human history is the exception to the rule. You are convinced we are at the knee of an exponential curve and I am convinced we've already flattened into sigmoid.
I'm not handwaving away anything; i'm admiring billions of years of clear precedent.
You're handwaving away all of that precedent based on extreme pessimism and alarmism that has no basis in any evidence to date. Simply because climate change exists doesnt mean its the most extreme version cooked up by a crackpot journalist.
I can just as easily say you're handwaving away the pessimism based on precedent. Precedent holds, right up until it doesn't.
No, it means there are always adaptations. I defined what it means.
The precedent is what has evidence. Your pessimism doesn't have evidence to support inhabitable conditions within a few decades unless we initiate an authoritarian world government to control all growth and control the climate. The burden of proof is on you, not me.
I'm assuming you meant uninhabitable conditions. And that you're putting words in my mouth.