LOL - no, a bit random. I was typing on my phone and running out of time. Broadly, it was a half baked thought that our Western culture heavily promotes ideas

LOL - no, a bit random. I was typing on my phone and running out of time. Broadly, it was a half baked thought that our Western culture heavily promotes ideas that are anti-Earth in a way. Ideas for instance where Elon Musk is talking about saving humanity by getting to Mars, or creating artificial meat as a solution to our food crises. These ideas suggest that the solution is to engineer our way out of a problem of our own making. The problem rhetoric being that Earth cannot support us. This runs counter to the thinking that we are bound to this Earth because we are part of it. We are one and the same. So we should respect it and work with it. Watts talks about seeing the Californian hills in the 60s, being carved up and houses being wedged in to the landscape in an artificial way. Where no consideration is given to working with the land, instead we try to dominate and shape it. Like I say, it's a half baked idea that I'm not really expressing very well I don't think! :-) I'd love others to straighten me out, or put me on the right path! :-) I did laugh a while back when in one of Watts' talks he mentioned Plastics being the solution to Deforestation and Paper Wastage... Engineering a solution to deforestation using plastics didn't work out so well for us. Fast forward 50 years and it turns out that Humans just began using more of everything! Like building roads to reduce traffic and you end up just promoting more car usage! :-)