In response to climate change and environmental breakdown, degrowth has become one of the key concepts in political ecology and related disciplines. Degrowth provides a critique of the ideology of growth measured as Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as a core objective for capitalist economies. It argues that degrowth is possible, desirable and necessary to halt further ecological destruction and to build socially just and ecologically sustainable societies.
Even if you’re right, I think its important to not get into a defeatist attitude. There are levels of global catastrophe and having a philosophy of “its already too late” could lead to an even worse outcome.