You mean how clean things were in the industrial revolution? And how eglatarian it was under feudalism? Or back when slash and burn was the only agriculture? Back when we were causing mass extinctions with pointy sticks and still having a population in danger of extinction?
The halcyon past never existed. If we want things to get better we need to move more complex not simplified for the sake of aesthetics and sparing ourselves from having to use our thinkmeats.
All of the things you list are other great examples of problems caused by economic growth. That’s my point, to suggest growth comes “for free” or that there are no externalities, is to ignore all of human history.
The halcyon past never existed. If we want things to get better we need to move more complex not simplified for the sake of aesthetics and sparing ourselves from having to use our thinkmeats.