Thank you for your thoughtful article. You view the world with compassion; and your compassion makes you open to living frugally for the sake of the larger community. You are also correct in observing that capitalist economics and its enabling political support systems will shut down any serious efforts that promote mindful living (i.e. “living with less”). And once our self-indulgent pathway to maximum climate crisis reaches crescendo, a return to Stone Age survival practices is our most likely outcome as a species. Ironically, the return to survival brutality will put humanity back on the road to seeing compassionate living and mindfulness toward nature as desired practices for surviving rationally within in a low-population community.