Economic growth and population growth cannot trend upward forever. No should they.

You're saying communities are only successful if they raze the land like locusts. Your "successful" communities will inevitably lead to a population crash.

You cannot expect technology to stretch natural limits indefinitely. All civilizations exist on top of the natural world, not outside them. Therefore, they are bound to natural limits.

There's no such thing as endless growth. That's a fantasy.

There's not .any technological advancements that have not been weaponized and turned on other humans, that didn't have a nasty and unforseen consequence, or that the development and production of has not caused death and despair to many for the benefit of a few. While I'm not anti-technology per se, I think it's time we properly acknowledged that we've been short sighted and imprudent in developing a lot of technologies. Technology comes with harm and somebody somewhere has to pay the price as collateral damage.

Ergo, economic and population growth and technologies cannot be meaningful measures of the success of a civilization. A civilization that eats itself is not successful.