An intelligent species this story-telling, tool-making ape, just not very wise. I've reached a similar conclusion about our finite resources and how they should be (but in all likelihood won't be) more prudently focussed as we bump up against biogeophysical limits and can see their fading availability clearly in the near distance.

First, we should be pursuing community/regional relocalisation of as much as possible, as quickly as possible of the three most important 'living' components: potable water, food production, regional shelter needs. Second, we need a safe decommissioning of all the dangerous complexities we have littered (literally) around the globe; for example, nuclear power plants and their waste storage facilities, chemical production plants and their toxic products and waste, and biosafety labs and their deadly pathogens.

Everything else is on the table for radical and significant degrowth or elimination...and, given my view of the ruling elite, these will only be pursued if our global 'leaders' can figure out a way to monetise them while keeping the masses mollified.