But philosophically, how would the world deal with the knowledge that the internet was plunging earth into a global-warming death spiral?

You'd have to think we're well beyond the point of no-return. Hard to see The Internet (which appeared in our lifetimes as a new God, like The Sun), suddenly fizzling out (in our lifetimes). Nothing short of a total reset is gonna do that. Maybe that's our destiny. It's how the game works.

That's the quagmire we find ourselves in. All major economies in the world, regardless of political system, depend on production and consumption to survive. We've even been told that inflation is good because just a little bit spurs consumption. What a crock of shit.

The best thing we could do four our survival is quit producing and consuming so much needless crap, but we can't. We're pretty much fucked.