"Despite the power of the sustainability movement"? What? The U.S. military just got a $70 Billion expansion and your fetishization of "innovators" is a lie as it is the U.S. military that is the socialist means of technological development. As Professor David F. Noble has detailed - efficiency was not the standard for innovation but rather profits for the elite. Try reading his book "Forces of Production" and his "Religion of Technology" book details - our current technology is apocalyptic, based on the same symmetric Platonic math that you idealize. haha. The sustainability movement has no power but Mother Nature does because of the law of physics of ecology as quantum negentropy.
We do know what Google has been filtered out - Counterpunch, Democracynow, and various other "conspiracy" website that expose the corporate-state lies. The interwebs is already a dead horse.
According to Dark Age Theory we need to "burn through" our resources in order to "develop" properly - i.e. we need to destroy the village in order to save it (as was the saying for genocide in Vietnam)