Growth is a good thing for human beings.
It certainly has been but growth can (obviously) not go on indefinitely on a finite planet.
It must come to an end since the earth's resources are limited and the plague of humans has got to the stage where it is destroying them much faster than they can renew themselves.
My main concern is that nothing is being done about it, and as an old bloke, experience has shown nothing will be.
Humans are greedy, ruthless and selfish, to varying degrees. The sort of individulas who become "successful" in business and politics tend mainly to be the most ruthless, selfish and greedy. These are the sort of people who will act only in their personal short term interest, anything long term costing money won't happen until it is too late. They will keep enough people ignorant or in denial for that to happen. It has always been like that.
Expert data will be ignored or denied.
My experience is in motor racing.
After Nelson Piquet had a huge accident hitting the wall at Tamburello, Imola in "my" car (1987) giving him a concussion which was (slightly) life changing I raised the issue at the FIA Technical Working group (of which I was a member for decades) and was told nothing could be done because of the track geography. Michele Alboreto had a bad accident there in 1991in testing, same response, Gerhard Berger had a huge fiery accident there at the Grand Prix in 1991 he was lucky and only survived due to superb work from the marshalls getting him out of the car quickly and I got the same response from the governing body.
Ayrton Senna was killed there in 1994 and the same powers that be found a way to make it safer.
I was not the only expert advising the same thing but the leaders think they know best, IME they rarely do.