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We are consuming ourselves.
An examination of the question of "who consumes us and/or our energy" points to the fact that the answer is ourselves. All of our systems arose as we crawled out of hunter/gatherer societies into agricultural societies. Jobs were created in order to give people more time and equipment to grow food. When that spilled over into technology, when we could travel to see each other long-distance and communicate with each other long distance, we took the next step where we began to work just for the sake of the gadgets and technological advancements, gathering in cities to do this amazing work.
The problem is that we did not stay on course. We did not ensure that everyone gets fed. The constant "rat race" feeling of hunger comes from our refusal to ensure that everyone is fed. Our weakest links are those where any single individual in the human chain is having to fight or forage for survival. As they do so, undoubtedly impacting other humans negatively in the pursuit of food, the repurcussions of procuring food goes right up to the top food chain. We have at last met ourselves again at the other end of this process of development out of the hunter/gatherer phase into the Information Age, having just about conquered technology. We are about to begin seeing hyperadvances made in that area, but somewhere along the way on our journey from hunter/gatherers to techno geeks, we have failed to do the most basic task at hand.
Food/water, clothing, shelter, comfort and love is what is needed to have Heaven on Earth. They can no longer be withheld from anyone. This idea is greeted with scorn by the right-wing, who continue to assert that the "free market" provides for everyone's needs, even though the overwhelming evidence is that it most certainly does not.
Until we can sucessfully meet the task at hand, feeding everyone, we will not evolve to the next level of existence. The time is Now. HUMAN NEEDS COME FIRST, PERIOD, THE END.
