The answer is, we don't have any idea. Almost every person is addicted to either coffee, or cigarettes, or drugs (medicinal or recreational) or to computer games, or porn, or soap operas, or shopping, or some other person, or to alcohol, or fast food. None of these things are good for us. How can fat people go beyond being depressed and feeling sorry for themselves, and coming up with the discipline firstly to get themselves into shape, and then, by implication, to look beyond themselves, at the world, a world that is unravelling. The odds of fat people being able to lift themselves towards turning our troubles around are very very slim. The short answer is that we can't, that we won't. That failure, systemic collapse (total collapse) is a certainty.
Our economics was always based on a schism between the haves and the have nots, and the have nots always outnumbered the haves, and now we are all about to become have nots. Economics based on infinite growth is based on the Now, and has absolutely no notions of the future. Even the simple habit of drinking coffee borrows energy from the future. So does driving a car, and eating fast food. Smoking merely accelerates everything. Including death. And now, the future is upon us, and the now is going up in cigarette smoke and burning car tyres. The idea of order is becoming pure fantasy as systems disintegrate. It is already well underway.
What can we do? is there any solution? As Nate Hagens said, an ancient antelope with oversized antlers went extinct recently. We have the ability to trim our own antlers. To, with the help of media and advertisers, make a cultural shift in terms of what we consider 'normal' behaviour. Normal consumption. Thrift is about to be thrust upon us, thrift is the new shift, thrift is the new vogue. Or death, starvation, die off and disease. It's your choice, and mine, together, even if we don't choose.
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