The energy challenge

[Janic]

when I was a child, our mother made us watch the milk to prevent it from overflowing and if it happened suddenly it was half the pan that emptied at once. The same thing happens with beer, champagne, for example. Clearly who closely monitors the pan of our society that boils?

[Ahmed]

This is called the threshold effect *: it is only when we reach a critical value that an upheaval occurs: you walk on a seesaw and when you approach the axis, it nothing more happens than when you start to climb, as soon as the axis is exceeded, the board rocks irretrievably and suddenly.
This lack of proportionality between causes and consequences explains the widespread (and expertly maintained) blindness.
Nobody is watching the pan, because everyone fulfills the role of unconscious agent determined by the system; the latter, like any system, operates blind, according to its only internal rules which it imposes on all participants.

Roddier also talks about it, with other terms.

[Grelinette]

This is called the threshold effect *

This is also called the "head in the wall" effect, a behavior widely observed within the human species!

The human species, despite the warnings, warning signs and other bad omens announced, always goes as far and as close as possible to the extreme limits not to be exceeded, to the point of banging its head on the wall.

This risky behavior has surely made the human species able to progress and surpass all other animal species, but true to the expression "it passes or it breaks", it may end up breaking!

[Ahmed]

The risks taken by humanity over the centuries are inherent in the insufficient knowledge of parameters and correlatively hazardous decisions ...
Today, the phenomenon is of another order since the submission to the fetish * of value practically annihilates any critical reflection and any possibility of emancipation from this framework.

* I remind you that a fetish is an abstract construction projected by a human group onto an object, but therefore perceived as external and imposing itself on it.