Going backwards in the sense we're talking here is the only known way forward. (i.e. significantly reduced use of expensive transportation and consumer goods, h

Going backwards in the sense we're talking here is the only known way forward. (i.e. significantly reduced use of expensive transportation and consumer goods, having fewer children --real lifestyle changes.) The alternative is a destroyed ecosystem and likely lots of death and suffering. We need to sell people on the idea that we're doomed by the status quo, or else we're doomed. It sounds like hyperbole, but of course it isn't.