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The industrial era is nothing more than subsidised costs by means of fossil fuels and the destruction of our environment, with all progress being made tending t

The industrial era is nothing more than subsidised costs by means of fossil fuels and the destruction of our environment, with all progress being made tending to be zero sum. Oh so we discovered antibiotics? Great, but now we have to deal with increasing rates of diabetes, cancer, heart and immunodeficiency diseases. And even though some people would like to make us think that our life expectancy has gone up, that's only true for the average because of increased expectancy at birth. Plus we are not measuring quality of life. You know, the only real progress we've made is in terms of education and individual rights. I'm actually starting to think that the Industrial Age is the worst thing that could have happened to human kind. Even this antibiotics apocalypse, along with outbreaks of potentially deadly viruses, like the mad cow disease or the aviary flu, are caused by industrial farming practices, which are also guilty of polluting the soil they stand on and the nearby water streams, damaging the area and the people living nearby, A post-industrial age is long overdue.

TeMPOraL 11y ago
We had more people leaving much happier lives than ever before in history, so I wouldn't say that "the Industrial Age is the worst thing that could have happened to human kind". Even the most horrible problems of our times are affecting less people than the mundane pre-industrial problems were. If we can push through it to a post-industrial technological era, then it'll definitely be worth it.
VanillaLime 11y ago
There are many, many places on earth where you can go and live precisely the lifestyle that the vast majority lived before the Industrial Age. Assuming you live in the US, there are literally tens of millions of acres of land in the West around the Rockies where you can live completely away from modern industry. Grow your own food, build your own cabin, never touch modern medicine. If you really feel that all progress for the past thousand years has been worthless, go ahead and live a life from a thousand years ago. I'm pretty sure it will take you less a month to realize that life sucked back then.

TeMPOraL 11y ago

We had more people leaving much happier lives than ever before in history, so I wouldn't say that "the Industrial Age is the worst thing that could have happened to human kind". Even the most horrible problems of our times are affecting less people than the mundane pre-industrial problems were. If we can push through it to a post-industrial technological era, then it'll definitely be worth it.

VanillaLime 11y ago

There are many, many places on earth where you can go and live precisely the lifestyle that the vast majority lived before the Industrial Age. Assuming you live in the US, there are literally tens of millions of acres of land in the West around the Rockies where you can live completely away from modern industry. Grow your own food, build your own cabin, never touch modern medicine. If you really feel that all progress for the past thousand years has been worthless, go ahead and live a life from a thousand years ago. I'm pretty sure it will take you less a month to realize that life sucked back then.