We are having a hard time maintaining what has already been built.  Oroville dam is a great metaphor for our predicament, but there are countless others.

I don't know what a "matrix agent" is.

Humanity is not a virus but we have to learn the Earth is round and finite.  A system that requires endless growth in a closed system cannot continue, due to physical limits.

If it's so sustain a bull, don't build an underground garage.