Transitioning to a finite planet

My parents generation really saw the continues growth and exploration of cheap reliable products.  From oil and gas to Forestry.  Life was abundant.

From the 60s once technology started to catch up to our capacity to dig cut and drill, Quality of life really began to improve. The boomer generation saw incremental wealth accumulation and vast improvements in health and well being.

We are now starting to see what the real cost of this prosperity is.  What was once abundant and easily accessible is becoming scarce and costly to acquire.  Cheap reliable oil fields have been drained and forests full of 1000 year old trees have been harvested.  Should they have slowed down and done more with less?  That is an unanswerable question.  What we have done in the past has lead us to where we are today.  

So what dose that mean moving forward?    Quality of life for most of us is historically better than it ever has.  We have endless access to information we have central heating we have as much avocado and toast as one can consume.  Now we are seeing that this is possibly at stake if we don't start to change.  business as usual is no longer a choice.  

With the fish stocks of our oceans diminishing, populations around the worlds growing inequality looming where dose that leave the average JO? No longer can we pop out to the public places and frolic like our parents generation did.  If we do go how ever we do so with much better gear and greater knowledge of what to expect as we pre scout on the web.  But we are more increasingly are trespassing either on indigenous land or land that at a time made sense to sell to a private owner.  

The real costs of doing business in the past is staring us in the face and leaving many of us feeling helpless and a bit lost as to what do we do with our time on this earth.