> If all first-world countries stopped producing so many things to consume and returned to simpler lifestyles, then there would be much less "development" in de

> If all first-world countries stopped producing so many things to consume and returned to simpler lifestyles, then there would be much less "development" in developing nations. And there would be much more poverty, disease, and death. Not to mention that we wouldn't be able to have this conversation since the medium in which we are having it requires an industrial, technological society, which "simpler lifestyles" can't support.