A chart shows our world's consumption (versus the supposed one)

"NONE/LESS OF…
Cars & trucks
REPLACED WITH…
Bicycles, walking, electric scooters, horses, & mules

Airplane travel (domestic & international)
REPLACED WITH…
Infrequent long journeys by trains and boat

Power boats, barges, ocean liners, cargo ships, & super tankers
REPLACED WITH…
Sailboats, row-boats, canoes

Supermarket food shopping
REPLACED WITH…
Home gardens & local farmers markets

Vacations (domestic & international)
REPLACED WITH…
“Stay-cations” to local beaches, rivers, lakes, forests; Sunday’s at the creek

Restaurant & fast food meals
REPLACED WITH…
Cooking at home & family meals

Electronic gadgetry (TVs, computers, ipods, cell phones, DVDs, etc.)
REPLACED WITH…
Entertaining friends at home, block parties, visiting among neighbors,

Hollywood movies & CDs/downloads of your favorite bands
REPLACED WITH…
Community theater & neighborhood concerts by local artists & musicians

Power tools
REPLACED WITH…
Hand tools

Electricity on demand
REPLACED WITH…
Partial/multi-day electrical blackouts & limited-use electricity restrictions

Electric light bulbs
REPLACED WITH…
Candles & early bedtimes

Universities & colleges
REPLACED WITH…
Community colleges & trade apprenticing

Large grade-schools & high-schools
REPLACED WITH…
Small community schools & home-schooling

Huge farms in California & Mid-west supplying our food
REPLACED WITH…
Small farms everywhere (even in suburbs & cities) supplying our food

Oil/gas/electric home-heating
REPLACED WITH…
Wood stoves, passive solar, insulation, sweaters, blankets, & long underwear

Air conditioning
REPLACED WITH…
Shade trees, swimming holes, cool drinks, & sleeping on your porch

Hot showers
REPLACED WITH…
Cold showers, luke-warm baths & solar water heaters

Running water
REPLACED WITH…
Cisterns & hand pumps

Swimming pools
REPLACED WITH…
Swimming holes; local rivers, lakes, & oceans; dipping your head in a bucket

Parking lots
REPLACED WITH…
Bike racks & hitching posts

Skyscrapers & huge office buildings
REPLACED WITH…
Bat habitat & salvage projects

Refrigerators & freezers
REPLACED WITH…
Root cellars, smoke-houses, drying racks, ice-houses, & salt barrels

Credit card, loans, & debt in general
REPLACED WITH…
Cash, bartering of goods, trading work

Skiing & snowboarding
REPLACED WITH…
Sledding, snowball fights, ice-skating

Budweiser, fine wines, & mixed drinks
REPLACED WITH…
Home-made wine, beer, hard cider, & moonshine

One-family households
REPLACED WITH…
Extended-family or multi-family households (i.e. Grandma’s comin’ home…and so is Uncle Bob)

Divorce & re-marriage
REPLACED WITH…
Gritting it out (& hopefully working it out) with support of extended family

Clothes shopping
REPLACED WITH…
Hand-me-downs, mending, making

Not knowing (or barely knowing) your neighbors & little interaction with them
REPLACED WITH…
Intimately knowing your neighbors & relying on them for your survival

Terrorist threats (i.e. trying to grow commerce in an increasingly hostile global political climate)
REPLACED WITH…
Climate threats (i.e. trying to grow your food in an increasingly unpredictable physical climate)

Overweight & obese people
REPLACED WITH…
Malnutrition & “just enough”; lean & skinny people

High-fructose corn syrup & table sugar
REPLACED WITH…
Honey & fruit"

More and a better look at this chart:
By Dr. R. Daniel Allen
http://campfire.theoildrum.com/node/5937

"Most of the kids have a good laugh with the before/after comparison chart, and I laugh along with them. The contrasts between the present and (likely) future presented in the chart are striking to the point of unbelievability to them, and their reactions are honest and humorous: “So, Dr. Allen, where can I buy this mule I’ll need?”
But I also laugh with some sadness and a touch of fear; sadness that prudent suggestions to prepare for a difficult future are still regarded as a joke; and fear for a possibly much darker future I don’t think they yet comprehend -- a fear that we might not be able to pull this off"
What do you think?