Feast in the time of plague

Apart from a nuclear conflict on the horizon once again, the human societies are torn by deep contradictions. One of the main contradictions is the one between our lifestyle and the global resources of the planet. The problem is that the Western lifestyle had become over the centuries a dream for other less developed societies. Do we have the right (and the power) to prevent them from achieving this goal? Not at all. Can we, ourselves, give up our lifestyle? I doubt it… That is why I imagine the near future as "the feast in the time of the plague ». The Russian bombs are falling over Ukraine, are we going to give up gas stoves? ..So the feast of (over)consumption will continue and whatever comes is might be.