> Until we each do our tiny parts of reducing our consumption, Earth's temperature will continue its steady march upward. Now we're getting into the meat of th

> Until we each do our tiny parts of reducing our consumption, Earth's temperature will continue its steady march upward. Now we're getting into the meat of the problem. If everyone worked less, got less money to spend on stupid plastic shit, drove less in our cars, threw away less perfectly edible food, and spent more time with the people we care about, both we the people and the planet would be better off. But for our debt-fueled micro- and macro-economies, it would spell utter disaster. Financial crisis writ large. Housing market would go to shit. Banks would default. The state would get less taxes, so deficit would skyrocket. Meanwhile national debt, which is measured relative to GDP, would blow up much quicker than the deficit since GDP would drop sharply. So nobody will ever actually make it happen.