Hi Danny,
You ask an important question.

The song suggests returning to a more simple society - more localosation and less globalisation - we are free to do this even though the chance of this happening is very small just as it is unlikely that the couple in the song would pack their bags and live out of a suitcase.

In the song I suggested this solution, not because I believe it, that this matches the mood of the day with talk of energy reduction etc etc.

I believe science and technology is our only hope. For example, nuclear fusion to provide energy emulating the way the sun provides our energy. It works on very small scale - can we make it work on large scale. The conflict issue between nations is a difficult one but ....

My opinion more generally is that all civilizations will come to disaster because humans develop controlling more and more but not capable of appreciating all the consequences. This is a nonlinear problem leading in the end to a chaotic state. We are seeing this in some ways at the moment with both economic and green issues.

thanks for commenting Danny

Jim