Low-tech is needed only when the high-tech is crippled/toxic/uncontrolled/broken/overengineered/expensive.
Ask HN: Is anyone here deliberately low‑tech? If so, why and how?
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Re: Ask HN: Is anyone here deliberately low‑tech? If so, why and how?
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> oh geez oh no how can we possibly survive without poisoning everything we touch?
We very well could survive, but maybe only after 6-7 billions of us starve. 1-2 billions of people is considered to be natural carrying capacity of Earth.
Perhaps we could do it gradually enough where nobody has to starve, we get rid of the "REPRODUCE REPRODUCE REPRODUCE" propaganda, and we just naturally end up back near a natural population instead of overpopulating until we die of a metaphorical heat death.