I am a software engineer. I agree with you. There is something deeply broken about our human experience and that comes from becoming abstracted away from the

I am a software engineer. I agree with you. There is something deeply broken about our human experience and that comes from becoming abstracted away from the ecology. It isn't just that we have to heal the plant; we also have to heal ourselves. (And frankly, if human civilization self-destructs and humans get wiped... the planet will recover just fine, eventually. Outside of maybe nukes going off everywhere). We have come to think of ourselves as apart from the ecology rather than a part of the ecology. We think that the ecology is a factor in our economy, rather than our economy being a part of the over-all ecology. Software engineers in particular, have this weird aversion to getting their hands dirty with hardware, and so we abstract ourselves away from the hard, dirty bits. It blinds us to simpler, more practical solutions. I think there is a place for technology, but only in terms of how it supports the direct human experience with the land, rather than getting in between. For example, I think the free and open web is highly vital to helping people share ideas and methods. Every single locale is different, but there are design patterns that may work. Seeing all the forums, subreddits, podcasts and blogs on this subject ... we already have the technology we need to pull all of this off. And none of this involves VCs, Big Tech, or aggregators (from Stretechery, Aggregation Theory). It will be the land stewards. Those aggregation of wealth are fundamentally based upon the extraction of resources (be they from the earth or the people), and then controlling access to them. It's to the point where we have to depend upon buying into the civilization in order to live and survive, but it is breaking down and now the best we can come up with is the universal basic income. (When right there, in your backyard, you can be a part of something that nourishes you directly!) The irony is that, the same skill and mindset software engineers use to design an appropriate architecture from a myriad of design patterns is the same kind of mental process one can analyze a site and design resilient, regenerative, and decentralized food systems.