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Originally Posted by 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.
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agreed. its in human nature to make things better and easier for ourselves. the world as it is is the consequence of technologies that only came to be within a 500 yr(tops) span. sure everyone wants a healthy enviornment and planet, but when it comes down to it whos really going to willingly give up life as it is today.we have everything and more,and people are still inventing more things, and as consumers we want it all.
its virtually impossible to go back such primitive lifestyles. impossible and unreasonable. with our technology we learned many things and gained much knowledge. just like Zylark said, we know about meteors and probably have some sort of way to blow it up or make it miss us before it hits. if we just go back to the time of cavemen and know how to deflect that meteor but dont have the technology to do shit about it, wouldnt that suck.i hope this makes sense, im pretty baked right now..