Your life requires continuous consumption, and you have significant expenses for water, sanitation, school fees, road tolls, etc. You must keep your job, so you work late, don't take vacations, and take on tasks you find unethical. Food and goods come from all over the world, wherever they can be produced in the cheapest way. To compete in the global market, nations desperately relax environmental standards, labor laws, even democratic and human rights. There is an accelerating exploitation of natural resources.
Many regional cultures disappear with the destruction of their means of livelihood.
Life expectancy in all parts of the world drops because of environmentally caused diseases. International competition and declining social and environmental integrity lead to increasing distrust, intolerance, and aggression between competing regions. You live in a village-like community. Modest houses of various sizes and shapes in a style typical of your region, a style imposed by local building materials and climate, stand in clusters around courtyards with lawns, playground, and gardens. Many families keep small animals to recycle kitchen and garden wastes and to contribute to the food supply.