I like modernity in many ways. But I hugely disagree on what is called "science" nowadays, or is used for.
You see, I long started to change my lifestyle, I stopped using planes, I gave up my car, I reduced my life to a minimum of objects and consumption. That was freely chosen by me. But I have no right to expect this from anybody else, let alone from all earthlings. It was a choice I made. Seeing free choices being turned into demands and even punishments, I feel, is utterly wrong. Funnily enough, since 2020, I avoid public transportation, use again a car and drive more often and spend many more hours in front of a screen, for I lack social gatherings which have come to a halt on a massive scale.
The main question for each of us remains how we face our own death and that of those we love. If we cannot accept it, if we make it a taboo, this causes as much damage as we think we prevent ourselves from.
You can book a flight for 39 Euro to a distant island, these offers are online. To soothe ones consciousness, you can give part of this money to a fund, where it is claimed that compensation for the damage being done, will take place.
This reminds me of the indulgences of the Catholic Church, where you received an absolution for your sins by donation and they were thereby redeemed. The thing is, these claims that damage caused by me would be compensated are not very credible.
People who are really serious about this have not exactly made themselves popular. For example, an insecticide manufacturer has discovered his conscience and is making efforts to compensate for everything he sells. He makes sure that there are biospheres for insects and that insect hotels are built. In his industry, he was metaphorically stoned for this and was no longer invited to any congresses, as he was henceforth regarded as a defiler of the nest.
But the fact is, and reality will remain, that humans are not able to exactly compensate for what they consume or damage. The modern world cannot be so easily deconstructed and redesigned, certainly not if one pushes it. The idea of voluntariness shocks people because, firstly, they recognise this and, secondly, they cannot stand that it is so. Those who do not feel responsible and would rather have others decide for them will probably find a totalitarian community acceptable and see it as well-meaning.
Nevertheless, the need to use insecticides is there, as much as it pains us to admit it. But the mass production and monoculture on which modern man depends does not allow for anything else. If it were the case that efforts were being made to get people back to some self-sufficiency on their properties, to spend their time tending gardens, keeping small animals and preserving food, there would be government-wide campaigns to support and encourage this. None of this is the case. People are supposed to go to work for others, not take care of themselves.
Contrary to what we might think, there is no solution to the current challenges. Such things are sometimes interpreted to me as fatalism, which I clearly disagree with. I look at the countless houses and front gardens and no one really has any knowledge or would make any effort to turn the dust-sucked garden into a biotope.
So, it seems people really don't want that, are not interested in the slightest to put effort into gardens and perma culture. But if you ask them, they fear climate change, fear nature being destroyed, while their own garden is as lifeless as lifeless it can be. I don't hate those people. They either come to terms on a free basis or they won't. It's more than obvious that if you are interested in this, you could find all the knowledge you need for making your property into a more sustainable piece of ground. And actually, if you give enough time and not rush this, this might be a lifestyle again. But the pressure lies in the expression "we could lose on this race" - for how many decades, if not more, is this expression actually circulating?