I think you answered your own question and it’s a fair response. Civil disobedience for a good cause is good, for a bad cause is bad. Just depends on what good means to you.
No amount of technology will solve a problem that has been caused by technology to start with. There are too many people consuming too much on a planet with finite resources, but no one wants to be the one to change first. So, even if technology can save us, at the end of the day, it's mostly societal problem anyway. At some point people will need to embrace the idea of collapse.
