Yes! More and more, I'm coming to believe that humanity ended up on the wrong path with the industrial revolution. The benefits are obvious (technology, medic

Yes! More and more, I'm coming to believe that humanity ended up on the wrong path with the industrial revolution. The benefits are obvious (technology, medicine, etc.). But the downsides are also gathering momentum... Two centuries of industrialization have wrecked our climate, and machines have enabled the destruction of vast ecosystems. There are no glib solutions for soil degradation, desertification, water table depletion, or pollution. Billions of humans would not exist without the Haber–Bosch process (https://www.nature.com/articles/22672 https://www.nature.com/articles/22672). The path of industrialization might very well have a dead end, literally and figuratively.