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=== Failure Won't Look Catastrophic ===

The failure of this so-far maintained effort won't be a collective concrete agreement we all make. We may not simply choose to die out. We might simply choose to not better ourselves, [[Gradients Dominate Points|believing falsely that we are at some optimum]]. Even today the most primal form of growth, reproduction, fails humanity. It turns out that "showing up every day" is something that Mankind as a whole cannot do<ref name=logistic/>. Once we reach a certain amount of prosperity, [[Blog/2025-02-14/Fertility Rate|the desire to propagate no longer dominates]]. This particular growth instinct is written into us and we've still failed to maintain it. The other kinds of growth will be harder still. Already we see opposition to them with reactionary and conservative positions dominating across the political spectrum in the shape of the degrowther<ref name=degrowth-views/>.