ABSTRACT
Major change is required for societies to become less unsustainable. For some people, and for some time, there was hope that these major changes could be effected without significant disruption to everyday lives. People can only get the structural change needed for them to enhance the sustainability of their societies if they undertake structural change directly. Resistance to structural change lies not only in the physical and financial scale of infrastructure, but in all the resulting lifestyles that then make connection to that infrastructure habitual. Structure lies not only in the societies' physical systems but also in the wider ideologies associated with them. Modernization presented itself as a process of detraditionalization, liberating people from communities of interdependence. Despite a widespread commitment to the value of improving efficiency, there are many examples in mainstream society where value is indicated by how much effort we put into something rather than how little.
