Nuclear or batteries come with their own kind of logistical problems.
Edit: It might sound that I'm being a contrarian, but I'm with you. Europe has dug itself in a deep hole, and I'm not sure how it will manage its way out without depending on dictatorships.
I did not expect a mention of Dries Van Langenhove in the article. Convicted in Belgium for sowing hatred and denying the holocaust, so now he fled to the rest of Europe to spread his filth.
There might indeed be ways around the filter, e.g. a stable, non-exploitative society but they would never reach space. The filter might indeed not even exist, space could indeed still be young but I'm not very convinced. If space were young, and if it were to expand as it currently does, civilizations would have fewer opportunities as there would be fewer visible stars to explore. As time grows, chances get smaller still.
Let's say humans do cling on. I believe they will face challenges that are too steep to make long-term survival probable. Not only the heavily pollution and the unlivable climate, but the depletion of basic minerals will probably prove too great an obstacle. That band of humans must have held on and maintained all current technology, and have sufficient power sources, to be able to do some deep underground mining, as all easy-to-reach minerals have already gone. Without technology or those minerals, I'm not sure how we'll be growing food or cleaning the air to breathe.
I believe we're seeing a universal law in action: any technologically advanced civilization will end up destroying itself. Whether it's the warming due to extracted fossil fuels, or a nuclear war, or AI, ..., there is, and must be, a seed of destruction in every advanced civilization. I purposefully say 'must be' because of the Fermi paradox, which should indicate to us all how any sci-fi future is forever beyond our grasp.
Aurora is a thing of beauty when you really need a specific app on the Play Store.
I do notice however that a local public transport app is malfunctioning since a few weeks, I suspect because of a Play Store update enforcing some dependency or integrity check, causing some apps to fail. For now, it's just one or two, but I'm anxiously bracing for the next app to fail.
Nuclear or batteries come with their own kind of logistical problems.
Edit: It might sound that I'm being a contrarian, but I'm with you. Europe has dug itself in a deep hole, and I'm not sure how it will manage its way out without depending on dictatorships.