Here are the positive points, relatively speaking:

- solar/wind/batteries have a fundamental economic advantage already, and there is further runway for gains in efficiency, yield, and cost reductions. All its competitors are, generally speaking, tapped out in terms of economic costs and efficiencies

- population declines are currently an inevitability of urbanization and techno-capitalism, less people, less pollution

- contrary to #2, it is likely that life extension will start to come into play for the billionaire class, and that will mean the rich elites DO need to think about the future

However, I agree, those are glimmers of hope in the grand scheme of the current system