I am pretty sure that we can, but it will require *radical* adjustments
including:
1. overcoming the city-countryside split as called for in the Communist
Manifesto.
2. elimination of the automobile and jet plane except for extraordinary
reasons.
3. promotion of bicycles and trains and other forms of environmentally wise
transportation.
4. drastic reduction in meat eating.
5. sharp cutback in fashion, luxury goods like Rolex watches, Mount Blanc
pens, overseas vacations, fancy restaurants and delicatessens--ie.
everything that goes into a "yuppie" lifestyle. In exchange for a reduction
in these kinds of dubious "goodies" we achieve more free time and a sense
of relief that we are not fucking over the rest of the world.
6. in general, less is more as Mies van der Rohe put it.
1-6 won't solve the problem, though, if fossil fuels & clean water
are soon running out & there is no practical alternative energy
source, as Mark says. How do you make bicycles & run trains without
fuels?