Future of Living

How will we live in the future? Will we live in large houses that consume a lot of electricity? Or, will we reside in smaller homes that need less energy and therefore consume less fossil fuels? Will we use practices such as composing, water recycling, home growing vegetables, fruits, and herbs? Will we use renewable energy. such as bio-gas, solar, wind, and water power? The answer to these questions for a sustainable world should be: yes! This world is becoming depleted, indeed, but actually it brings on a new and exciting time of examining new ways to live. I have often thought about this and realized that I don't like consuming so many things that get thrown away leading to nothing more than waste. Our human time of over-consumption perhaps has come to an end. Most of us have enough money to buy and use anything we want, but is buying too much useful or effective? Hmmm. Of course, we need to buy things as we don't know how to live off the land like our forefathers, but we should limit what we buy and not equate buying with money. I've studied development economics and here, we examine economic practices for enriching standards of living. Consumer economics studies those actions that overarching companies like Amazon and Apple take to be profitable. These actions trickle down sometimes negatively because wealthy corporations get wealthier, commodities' qualities get better (and therefore pricier), and this in turn, affects people with lower incomes negatively because they can't afford to buy new products like homes, cars, or computers, and can't even afford to live in simple apartments. This in the next turn forces them to look for alternative living styles out of necessity, but I say it's more out of desperation. This is exactly what we are seeing now: people living off the grid, fending for themselves, becoming less consumerists and more naturalists, which leads to many needing less and wanting less. But major companies still try to take advantage of economically disadvantaged. Are we as simple livers and consumers in peril?