Hibernate to save the world

Here at the Western World, we´re sitting around getting depressed because of the long nights and the cold. Whilom, we burn the midnight oil and use up the planet´s resources trying to cheer ourselves up and keep ourselves warm. Mitsutaka Uchikoshi is an example to us all, entering a state of hibernation in which he survived for two weeks with a body temperature of twenty-two Centigrade. There´s also a lemur which hibernates for seven months: the option is open to us primates without medical support, though he did end up needing a lot of hospital treatment. Not surprising, since he was exposed on a mountain side at the time.

So, this is what i propose. Instead of weathering the winter the way we do now, we hibernate, partly to avoid SAD, but mostly to stop using the planet´s resources. We should also do something similar in hotter places to avoid overuse of resources in the tropics - basically an all-day siesta. Result: more food to go around, less depression, lower energy use, no negatives at all really. I´m not suggesting total hibernation, just stocking up around October time, going to bed for several days at a time and just generally not doing much all winter, or in other parts of the world, all summer, thereby saving the world.

Incidentally, this is after researching the facility to enable us to do this, which clearly exists somewhere in our make-up. I dunno, something herbal.