A huge drop in human population is anticipated early this century due to massive reliance on dwindling, strategic petroleum resources that power the teetering, wasteful economy. Sustainable living has been demonstrated as superior to overconsuming and burning the planet to a cinder, but can only triumph when we are all forced by economic conditions to return to deriving our sustenance from our own local ecosystem. The need to do this now is obscured by the illusion of freedom to buy anything anytime and keep it up forever.