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I can't think of another civilization that had exact knowledge about the causes of and solution to its existential problems and refused to fix them.

Global warming? We have solar, wind, and battery technology that could replace everything. We just refuse to because of vested societal interests. Covid and its long-term threats? We could end it with masking and a determined effort to change interior ventilation in public spaces. We don't because of, again, vested interests of the wealthy. It's tempting to refer to this as capitalism but the same is true of every major society on Earth, no matter what its ideology is.

No past society has this excuse. When they were destroyed by plague or natural disaster, they really didn't know how to solve the problem. We do.