One of the main mistakes Sushil is making though is equating all of industrial society with nothing other than consumerism. If you got rid of industrial society, it wouldn't just be the consumer society that would have to go. Anything manufactured would also have to go, ergo just about all modern infrastructure would also have to go. Transport infrastructure, energy generation and transmission, communications, water and sewerage, national institutions (inc. hospitals and other social institutions), plus many more. All of these rely on an industrial society to keep them going, and they are pretty much the backbone of most modern societies.
I also don't think that people will be "jumping on the band wagon" to return to an agrarian society. I don't know about anyone else but toiling away in a field growing my own crops for 16 hours a day doesn't really appeal to me.
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