"Our economy, and thus wellbeing," there is a lot of glib oversimplification here. I'm into my middle age now and I can say pretty confidently that the only rea

"Our economy, and thus wellbeing," there is a lot of glib oversimplification here. I'm into my middle age now and I can say pretty confidently that the only real technology I think is indispensable and worth the energy we use on it is in food production and in medicine and if there were some way to actually restrict population growth, maintaining the high (frankly unsustainable) level of food production wouldn't be a big priority. I generally believe that on a day to day basis medieval peasants were about as happy as your average person now (perhaps more so). I'd probably trade places with one if I could still get access to the medicine which ensures that my kids don't die in childhood. My point isn't to say that modern technology is bad or doesn't provide value but that "the economy" as a single entity is almost pointless to try and evaluate with respect to a problem like climate change. It is not all or nothing. It never has been. The complexity of our lives and our happiness and flourishing doesn't come down to a glib one to one identification with the current economic order. We can and must (and should have been) thinking and speaking about this issue with more nuance.