The real challange we face as a human society can be boiled down very simply. It's too many people vs. too few resources.. The industrial revolution spawned a constant growth economic model that still is front and center in shaping the world we live in. That was okay a hundred years ago when there were only two billion humans on Earth, as opposed to the seven billion plus we must contend with now. There's just not enough biomass, water, and other resources on Earth to handle the demand created by that many people.
Constant growth is an anathema. It's a way of thinking that is bankrupt. Sustainability must become the new operative paradigm. The foundation of the sustainable future that must come is an economy that replaces 'constant growth' with 'steady state' thinking.
Toward that end, here is a wonderful graphic produced by an impressive group in the United Kingdom called Ecolabs that illustrates how a steady state economy might function.
Here is a link to the ecolabs website...
http://eco-labs.org/
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