many of the advancements to our civilization are directly powering our current apocalypse, and are leading to the collapse of ecosystems right now, not whenever we figure out how do things better.
i’m not a luddite, technology has made our lives easier in so many fucking ways, but right now we are catastrophically overburdening our planet with our consumption of resources, and we need to stop doing that also right now, and the very recent phenomenon of eating meat for every meal and moving through space faster than any human before the modern era ever traveled happen to both be luxuries we can live without, with disproportionate impacts on the viability of life on Earth.
we don’t advance as a civilization by throwing our hands up in the air and going back to the bad old days, but we also don’t advance as a civilization by being utterly unconcerned with the consequences of our actions. some technologies are fundamentally not worth the cost. especially industrial animal agriculture. if we can find better ways of doing things, sure, lets put them into action, but an attitude of unchecked growth will and currently is running up against the hard ceiling of the resources the Earth can produce, and every step we take over that energy budget makes life harder for everybody. unless you have your solution ready now, and you can be sure that whatever tech it is won’t expand to consume as much energy as possible just like our current tech, slowing down and scaling back industries that contribute to ecological collapse and aren’t necessary for human thriving is the solution.