Not just local and less

I was curious when I came across the link to a beautifully made site by Bon Appetit Management Company
http://www.eatlowcarbon.org/Carbon-Calculator.html, which allows you to calculate the carbon footprint of your diet. (If you really want to know!!) I couldn't resist and... the further I went with it.....inspite of the very attractive design and all, I got increasingly depressed. BAMCO is trying to get people to eat locally on quite a large scale and their menus sound delicious. But as I did the calculator I couldn't help thinking that it isn't going to work this way, going back to local and less. Maybe it was because my vegan meal choices of nuts and some tropical fruit made the thermometer jump right into the red, but I began to fantasize: of large solar powered greenhouses, maybe even on top of a highrise, in which all kinds of plants can grow without toxic pesticides and petroleum based fertilizers, no matter where you live, and yes, including butterflies and bees. Cheap and abundant energy, produced in our own backyard (or in the walls of our houses)  that will allow us to shape a world we have never even imagined. I was thinking that setting my sights that high, rather than on a small, local solution is way more challenging, but also more exciting. I cannot imagine that for example China or India would not jump to the opportunity to take over large global systems should the West miss the boat to do that in its guilt and despair about the last 150 years and instead try to move somewhat back to simpler, local structures. I could be really off the mark, I would be curious what others think about this. Any experts on the end of fossil fuels?

And I had another, more esoteric thought - could the development of psychology in the late 19th and 20th century - digging deep into our past, unearthing the archetypes etc., relate to the energy we have been using - from deep within the earth, havig developed over millenia? And now we are beginning to choose as our energy the sun, just as evolutionary spirituality (www.enlightennext.org) and cosmic evolution teachers (Ken Wilber, Michael Dowd, Brian Swimme etc.) are gaining momentum - it might not relate at all, but I found it fascinating!