And then once that runs out we will once more turn on each other with the same stoneage instincts and railguns.
Or.
Or we take a brewk. Spend a thousand years fixing what evolution couldnt, turning inward, instead of using up the environment to build ever larger wheel chairs for the sprawling tribal mess.
Maybe that dreams of unchanged infinite growth are a madness in themselves , a madness necessary for now, as we fall apart without surplus. But it cant last forever, either we change or the fever dream burns itself out.
I think you're right.
I also think convincing the rest of the world will be impossible.
Humans will, like any other life form, stretch to the maximum population possible and then collapse.