I feel the real issue is that we are all slaves to convenience and inertia. Every single product we own, every single habit we have, pollutes the land, water a

I feel the real issue is that we are all slaves to convenience and inertia. Every single product we own, every single habit we have, pollutes the land, water and air, and hogs resources. Any engineering effort to address the resultant mess is unequal to the sheer scale of consumption, even if doesn't have side effects of its own, like say permaculture. I think that the only solution is a shift to a simpler life style. But that's not really going to happen, so nature will find a way that's very inconvenient to us.