Humanity seems to be in a rush to achieve its goals. Although to say humanity's advancments harm the planet is perfectly true, we can also stop blaming these progressions at the same time. I pose this question, can we not find a way to do the same things BETTER? To drop back to the stone age and wander through the jungle is pointless (Although some, including myself, enjoy contact with unotuched nature.) and its obviously not an option for most people to "devolve" and run naked through the forest, but those who wish to make a change and yet remain "civilized" should attempt changes on a massively obtainable level. Many major companies are making the conversion already (IE electric cars) but no one who thinks about this can say the transition is purely for the benefit of nature, they are looking for the money, there is a major market in eletrical cars for the fact we have stripped the earth of fossil fuels. Maybe what people need is a change of attitude and morals towards the reason we do things and how we do them. Unfortunately we "civilized" humans tend to take personal gain over the safety of others, the sad truth is we are loading a gun, putting it to our forehead and just waiting a few years to pull the trigger. Time to change minds and means, not crawl back to the stone age, if not well then the question isn't "what now?"... actually the question won't be anything, we'll be too busy choking on fumes from our own "evolution". You decide how to get things done in a reasonable manner, let them think logically.
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Humanity seems to be in a rush to achieve its goals. Although to say humanity's advancments harm the planet is perfectly true, we can also stop blaming these progressions at the same time. I pose this question, can we not find a way to do the same things BETTER? To drop back to the stone age and wander through the jungle is pointless (Although some, including myself, enjoy contact with unotuched nature.) and its obviously not an option for most people to "devolve" and run naked through the forest, but those who wish to make a change and yet remain "civilized" should attempt changes on a massively obtainable level. Many major companies are making the conversion already (IE electric cars) but no one who thinks about this can say the transition is purely for the benefit of nature, they are looking for the money, there is a major market in eletrical cars for the fact we have stripped the earth of fossil fuels. Maybe what people need is a change of attitude and morals towards the reason we do things and how we do them. Unfortunately we "civilized" humans tend to take personal gain over the safety of others, the sad truth is we are loading a gun, putting it to our forehead and just waiting a few years to pull the trigger. Time to change minds and means, not crawl back to the stone age, if not well then the question isn't "what now?"... actually the question won't be anything, we'll be too busy choking on fumes from our own "evolution". You decide how to get things done in a reasonable manner, let them think logically.