This may be so but... this won't happen either. The only reason we, as a species, continue the way we are, is because the ability to produce huge amounts of energy is tightly controlled by a limited number of governments.
Uh...I'm not following you. Do you have something against prosperity and energy independence?
When the genie is completely out of the bottle, then subsequent wars or terrorist activities are likely to reduce the world population to a fraction of what we have now.
A new beginning MAY be possible when the population drops to... maybe a lot less than 1% of what we have today.
You sound like a genocidal Earth First member.
You need large populations to create the crown fires of capital and intellect that make civilization possible.I'll grant you that we have too many stupid people on the planet. Often this is a self correcting problem.
As for the natural selection of the 'markets' eliminating the cooks and the crooks, keep dreaming. Encouraging and supporting failure while punishing and discouraging success has been the law in most of the worlds and our government is curretly expending lots of resources to enforce the above rule.
And... thanks for trying so hard to stick a label on my views. Trust me. I'm not happy that we are heading where we are heading - I have kids too. But... I'm sorry to say, we ARE heading that way. If you disagree, please describe Earth let's say, 1000 years from today.