Despite debates and high profile wagers, time has shown that the Club of Rome was right about limits to growth.  We find ourselves now in a very dangerous time.  The risk at that moment is that our society will lapse into some different but still functionally unaltered version of what we had before the pandemic which would be a disaster leading only to the next disasters.  One crisis does not end simply because of the arrival of another.  There are a lot of problems backed up behind the COVID dam, not the least of which being ecological overshoot and climate change and the attendant threat of widespread societal collapse, issues that cannot be addressed without coherence and consensus within a currently internally divided global community.