Humanity Has No Concept Of Duty To Survival

As a species humanity is a beautiful, joyful, exploratory child with no concept of submitting to reason or duty to future survival; we make decisions that look good in the short run but may be disastrous in the long run, so by default we will run until we step past the cliff — analogous to the Limits to Growth thesis with delayed feedback that worsens even after the harmful action stops.