Reducing consumption at this point is not a good option, rather wee need to find ways how to produce more energy in a clean manner, as that's how most of our cu

Reducing consumption at this point is not a good option, rather wee need to find ways how to produce more energy in a clean manner, as that's how most of our current problems can be solved. Carbon capture, polluted water/air filtering, land recultivation, waste recycling, desalination, electricity powered transport, carbon neutral fuel production and even spaceflight - all these can fix our environmental problems if we have enough clean & cheap power. Just reducing consumption means we reduce our options while still using our current old, expensive and dirty power sources. And as for global footprint being bigger than the one of Earth at some time in the future - well, Earth and it's resources are just a very tiny part of our Solar System, not to mention it's wider neighborhood. Only limiting ourselves to the resources our our single planet is a very bad thing to do as that will indeed lead to strife, but using the wider resources of the Solar System should enable us to avoid this pressure for quite a while to come.