Originally Posted by
BigAura
The capital of world really comes primarily from the Earth, along with application of human labor/intellect. The earth belongs to all of us equally. Collectively humans have wiped out or enslaved most competing lifeforms, and sullied large swaths of the earth to claim this capital. Persons who choose a less consumptive lifestyle are in-fact preserving the Earth for others and therefore sharing more not less than most.
I agree there are many systems that will work and if one wants to revert to a primitive way of live and live off the land it is their right to do that. Human life expectancy at different stages of human evolution were different. If someone is ok with a life expectancy of 20 years and eating for survival and being crippled by a broken bone that is their right. I’m in agreement. In fact there are many places where such a lifestyle is still the norm.
We can’t communicate with such people because their lifestyle precludes them from having things like the internet and such. Even paper and quill pens and ink require some human working to produce such items for them to communicate using and thus a dependent society.
What we are really talking about is what level most people would be happy reverting back to in order to preserve the capital that is the Earth and what level we would be willing to accept in order to un-enslave those competing life forms. Would reverting 200 years be the proper place to halt progress or would we revert 500 years.
If one person or a 1000 people want to go back to that simple life I don’t have an issue. But their convictions should be such to not take the benefits of an advanced culture without excepting the price the rest of humanity has to pay for those advancements.
I personally feel that advanced cultures don’t have to happen at the expense of everything else. But then again I realize how much earth has to be dug up for oar and how much electricity it takes to produce a bike frame and all the power required to make a bike out of it. Then there is the consumption of food required and the cost of energy to produce that food to ride the bike down the road a given distance. Even the simplest lifestyle today requires a lot of interaction from the rest of mankind.
My thoughts are if the planet needs saved it won’t happen from inactivity of us all in a simpler form of life based on the past unless the goal is to eliminate humans and do a reset. If humans stay then the process of saving would take more hard work not less.