People in western countries have to make some tough decisions. We simply cannot continue to live the way we have been over the last few decades. We can get smart and change our behaviour, or we can keep doing what we are doing and condemn everyone on the planet to great hardship and eventually death. The basic problem is this: pollution and resource depletion caused by mass industrial development, now occurring on an increasingly global scale, have resulted in an emerging global crisis. The two most obvious aspects of this crisis are climate change and oil depletion.