Can both not be true at the same time? yes, we will reach AGI and then the Singularity and yes the climate and ecological crises will tip over to being irreversibly bad (unless we change course)

You hit a nerve... this is the biggest question of our time.

I worry that it will be the case of "the future is already here, just not evenly distributed"...
Look at what happened with the Covid19 vaccine. We essentially had the formula in 2 days and it still took a year and a half to complete testing, get it through the regulators and distribute (to the richer part of the world). Death can be a very binary thing for those six million people who died meanwhile.