"Proponents call on people to 'use less,' but there are no real numbers, and for most of us, there is no real way to do it."

There are numbers that show how ecovillage living does have much less impact. We can use less if we do it together, in community:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFJdr8fwJUA

Ecovillage living also improves our quality of life.

(the whole system and its technologies will change as people start building the new society within the shell of the old)