[Zylark]

Say again?

No cities? No technology? No machines?

What do you think keeps the roughly 6bn people on this planet alive?

And what is that experiment you grind on about supposed to prove? That people have varying degrees of empathy under varying sensory inputs? Well duh. No Nobel prize in that.

And despite your assertions, sustainable development is not an oxymoron. That it is by and large not done quite yet, does not mean it is impossible. It just mean that thus far there is little economic incentive to do so. But that is slowly changing for the better.

Abandon technology, and there will be a mass genocide from hunger alone. Billions will die.

If you want a better world, go fight for a more fair distribution of wealth and resources. For a quicker change to alternative fuels and renewable energy sources.

Yes there are ills in todays society, but going back to iron age technology and society won't be part of the solution.

And imagine for a moment we could get 3-4 billion people to agree to suicide so that the rest of us could abandon technology and live all on ecological farms doing only manual labor (sounds a lot like Pol Pots Cambodia really), how would that be better than modern society?

And without technology, if say a meteor was heading towards us, we'd go the way of the dinosaurs.

In short; get real.