Our society endures in a "competition continuum" where we follow a varying mixture of cooperation, competition, and war.
In peacetime, an economy of “wants” evolves, essentially morphing society from hierarchical structure to a networked web.
https://georgejnasr.wpcomstaging.com/2022/05/17/energy-and-the-competition-continuum/
The COP30 phased out language about "phasing out" all "fossil fuels"; here's to the return of scientific objectivity