– “They are driving the World over a cliff.”
But as you said yourself, they “more likely can not slow down”. They are, like every other country and company, locked into the profit-making system, to earn the money with which to buy raw materials. Under that system no one can slow down without going bankrupt and thereby freezing or starving.
Capitalism depends upon continual growth. On a finite planet. It has reached its limit, at least in its current form.