Originally Posted by INTP
...I'd love to see us making choices and taking actions to avoid a catastrophic collapse, but I don't see that happening.
There may be some helpful ideas that work out. Carfree living is an example that all of us here are familiar with. No-till or conservation farming is another example.
Also terra preta soils - there are some highly fertile self-sustaining patches of unique soil in South America that seem to have been artificially constructed by the indigeneous people 500-2000 years ago. If we can figure out what is going on there, we may be able to hit a bases loaded ecological home run producing biomass energy, increasing the fertility of soils, and sequestering carbon all at the same time.
Harder to say what could be done about increasing human population, water shortages and soil salinization, though.