Yes, I think we are too. The thing I find so exasperating and baffling is that we don't seem designed for backcasting. Even if it were true that every human on the planet thinks sustainability is the end goal (and I'm not at all convinced that's true), we've evolved these amazingly complex systems that disregard it, and these complex individual existences that don't allow for fully acting on it even if we believe it.

Before we evolved civilization, we didn't need to consider an end goal because we were by definition just part of a sustainable system. I feel like the starting point for all of it is getting people on the same page about an end goal - NOT the configuration of the board, just an agreement about what checkmate means. What is the point of this game we're playing? To win. What does winning mean? "A world that is infinitely renewing itself in a way that allows for life including human life, in a word, sustainable."