"Safety First" is an important prerequisite such rule, not to give up our life.
There can be many challenges and induced upcoming changes too. Careful and well
prepared such evaluation and problem-solving capabilities can be utmost important.
To cognitive recognize and secure prepare accordingly, are important capabilities.
Adaption to environmental given situations could assist but may not solve at all.

Natural environmental situations likely will ongoing change, evolutionary very likely
like it also has happened in the past. Many such trend's can not be sustainable or
circumstantial also lead to new situations that will change environments ongoing.
Risk-accessments and Fault-Tree Analysis, multi-variant evaluating such situations
to various parameters with details from known feed-back numbers can assist to
analyze various case scenarios to gain better understandings of real risks+futures.
Systematic detailed and wholistic improving with FailureMode and Effect Analysis's.
Synthesis of technical solutions, tools, parts and such functional designing details
(as granular next levels) and decisive weighted such specified preSelections also
can assist to find better adaptable, more reliable solutions improving our Quality.

Ongoing developing, our environment changes with our growing global populations
and thus the capabilities and the numbers of our tools is effecting accordingly fast.
Energy is a main driving and changing such factor. Chemical uses like energy from
historic resources of fossil reservoirs have been developed to still be cost efficient.
Probably for decades (at least to my natural life-time limit), there may be no real
shortages to be expectable. But with growing global demands many such natural
and environmental possible side effects and political dependances likely will be
reasons to prepare for more inert-secure sustainable additional alternatives too !
USA alone is importing still more than a cubic-km of hydroCarbons per year, which
largely combusts to more than a Giga-ton of CO2 and similar poisonous products
that ongoing changes and changed our environment and resources like our ocean.
And some nations with bigger populations desire stronger energy growth yet, too.

Our resources are precious limited and with increasing fossil explorations like to
biggest populated nations with fastest developing crude oil demands, as desired
also according to US and EU development PublicRelations-examples. This will in
near future hike such oil prices and related energy, transportation and materials
costs too. Without suitable alternatives as now co-evolving and soon implement-
necessary, to reduce this dependences. "Modern" societies wasting too much of
its assetts still to inefficient HVAC'd homes, payload-inefficient fashion cars and
many else inefficient sort of history museums, likely to face sustain-problems. As
exports deficits hurt already; to cover import needs. Beside chemical e.g. plastic
products should get priority access to our limited few fossil resources, as needed
also for future generations.

All these situations especially with such analytic "foreseen" futures can also be
very profitable new fields, like new products caring to such environmental and
habitual peripheral inducing peculiars.
New, global more successful products will need to adapt longterm to such different
situations. E.g. health and environmental implications also will impact regulations.
The "not-in-our-neighbourhood" environmental awareness already is global issues.
Any such Delay's for and to real solutions will only increase the pressures to act.
Like who really want's to live in or upon known pollutions considering health risks.
Much like it already determines the future locations and profits - due to schedules.
Also, public relations will have very significant long-term effect to it's value's, too.

As not quantity and sheer growth or size, but Quality will be most important !
Many properties also induce maintenance and service needs and our resources are
natural limited, especially with the time we will want to have available also for all
of our else personal and family needs too. E.g. cute to have a SUV or Van for such
family activities, but is it really making sense to individuals daily commute needs 
if only big and heavy vehicles - wouldn't also smaller still comfortable but better
economic single seated individual add'l transportation devices make more sense? !
Please don't misunderstand, I think such SUV's can be great, every family should
have it available in their garage for shopping needs or weekend trips, in addition ! 
Sounds stupid to power more than a magnitude more than actual payloads needs,
like longer engine noses, wider+longer but mostly empty bigger cars than needed.
How about small such Hybrid alternatives, to conserv and re-use breaking power
in dense stop-and-go with far less or no Smog issue's ? With more small vehicles
Rush-hour less-clogged freeways and interCity parking could improve that way too.
Smaller hybrid vehicles could ease steps to affordable fuel-cell power alternatives.
Asean situations and many urban deliveries like mail probably will like that too.
E.g. 4 such commute conveniences could use 1 common car parking space and in
metropolitan highrise area's this can be very attractive incentives or requirements. 
No Smog, small+faster (low mass = low damage risk) can incentive; permissions?

Such infrastructure and new more independant selfsustainable JT-ESy options with
increasing affordable decentral solar photoVoltaic power availability as supports it.
Nearly all roofs shall get modified to carry solar photoVoltaic panels, foreseeable!
Working at or near home can have even more substantial side-benefits like more
time and resources free'd, with improving infrastructures and services benefits as
this will accordingly be suitable to communicate as common broad "acceptable".
Sooner or later it will anyway by default, to hesitate longterm is "brand"-harmful.
We want no poor services or problems, but good diversity as win+win beneficial.
Accordingly, many home-appliances like new products and many very special and
economic small businesses likely can be better capable to assist to known needs.
Structural changes already started with improving communication capabilities.

Once we recognize the side effects and understand more of our actions long-term
implications, we more likely can and will decide what will be important to us, too.
Experience often also is gained from failures, but in some instances failures can
be even lethal or so disabling that we better considerate 1st.-think about it, too!