Can we find a way out?

How to equate the two? On the one hand we have bred to well, found comfort for most to the point that population has soared. There is a limit to the planets resources. Other animals are dieting out so that we can survive. Developing societies in Africa,  china, India, all across the world want the same as us. The planet can not take it. Something has to give. The most humane approach would be for people to volunteer not to breed so much. The childless couple out greens any others trivial recycling. Here, in England, what do we do? The conservative government, and new labour before have allowed the top few to run ahead. This moneyed minority have ensured their safety. Systems have been put in place to ensure they remain ok. Down at the bottom benefits are being withdrawn. If an individual can not support the self they will go under. Labour did have some successes; cardboard city, the homeless encampment under a London bridge was closed down in the late nineties. Homelessness is massively on the increase now. The contained, home owning world is becoming difficult to break in to. Hearing teachers moaning about pensions reveals that they are inside the saved group. Just. Below this level people worry about daily work. Below this people worry about daily bread.
The great experiment of capitalist growth and developement has hit a point of no return. Attempts to slow consumption may by a little time but soon we will have to face up to it. We are done. Increasingly it seems to me that this top one percent and their children will be one group who survives the great wipe out. Smaller bands or tribes modelling themselves on sustainable tribal living will get through too. There is little emotion can do. Species come and go. They all have a limited period of success. Any animal outgrowing its food sources and environment suffers natural consequences. Disease, famine, drought, all this and more is around the corner.
It has been a great run. The view of linear progress and growth has proved a failed anthropological scheme. Small tribal groups who developed ideas of dreamtime etc may have met our derision but they appear to be on course to outlive us. Sustainability, a noughties buzz word is incompatible with the current god, Growth. Ours is not the only way man could have taken. Tribal people's are at the same point of evolution as us. The idea that they are like us but behind in a developmental sense is untrue.
Perhaps the single good point of the current fashionable attack on reason is this. We are animals. We will never see the full picture any more than a monkey does. Consequently all our knowledge is in a sense delusional. If our sciences are delusional then primitive cultures, even though they believe in ghosts, are succeeding in continuing. There is a good point here. I suspect, however, that we have opened pandora a box, bitten the apple of knowledge. Our curiosity can not be contained.
It is far from all doom and gloom. All times felt so to some. All statistics show we live in the most peaceful times ever. The real question is, can we handle the peace? Wars and fighting kept our numbers down. Poor medicine meant lives were short, violent affairs. Now we hardly feel a life. Like opium addicts we float through, barely touching the sides.
Can we find a way out?