I am a man of considerable means. Not rich rich, but rich enough to have a comfortable lifestyle of conspicuous consumption. But I feel that this economical, ecological, sociological collapse will happen within my lifetime, probably as I become old and frail.
I have two options, either to bury my head in the sand and continue my life of materialism (and maybe increase the spending, since it's pointless to save for a bleak future where society won't honour private pension funds), or try to do something to spread awareness. In my opinion, the problems are so huge that both options will lead to the same result - a ruined world within my lifetime. The time to make radical change to society has passed; we have used up all the ecological goodwill we could be afforded, and now is the time to reap the whirlwind. The only choice is, as David Suzuki puts it, whether we can look our grandkids in the eye and say that we did our best to keep the world viable for them.
I have thought about this since childhood, but never really believed in it personally until quite recently.
What would you guys do?
