We can’t turn back the wheels of development

Question from the Internet:

“Is there a chance the world will ever go back to a pre-industrial society?”

While our world is facing multiple crisis situations and we are in great need of change, this does not mean reversing evolution and development or discarding anything we have achieved so far.

There are no problems with society, with industry, the economy and other structures we have built. The problem is in our values, goals and in the intention we use everything with.

We are all inherently self-serving, self-justifying, individualistic and exploitative. We are driven by an insatiable and ever-growing desire for more; we want to excessively consume everything we can place our hands on while we also ruthlessly and exclusively compete with each other.

With our inherent behaviour, we are not only incompatible with Nature’s lawful and integrated system, but we are outright destructive like cancer.

Thus we do not need to directly change anything about society, industry or trade. We need to change how we relate to each other and nature and how we communicate and cooperate. We have to learn from Nature’s finely balanced and mutually integrated system how to make human society and all human activities become adapted and compatible with Nature’s laws.

Then we can continue developing, building and consuming — as long as we follow Nature’s template and remain in its mutually responsible and mutually complementing confines while also remaining within the optimal parameters of natural necessities and available resources.