These two👆cavemen are deeply perplexed. They do not understand why their families and friends are dying off early. They eat non-GMO, organic and clean. They exercise. No screens for at least another 10,000 years. No industries to poison the air. No processed food. And yet almost half their children die before they reach puberty and almost no one lives past thirty.
So what is wrong?
It’s a lack of knowledge.
Resources haven’t increased our lifespans, knowledge has.
This view - that we will be healthy if we maintain the purity of our bodies - is a static, utopian view. It assumes that no problems will occur in our bodies if we do the ‘right things’. But we know that problems are inevitable. The question then is how to solve those problems. We are better at solving the problems of our bodies - with modern medicine and modern theories - now than we were when these two fellows were having this conversation.
This is why sustainability and environmentalism are anti-human and ironically anti-Earth. They rely on this logic - that the purity of our planet must be maintained to prevent problems - by cutting back on pollution, by reducing human activity, by eating less meat. Nothing is less enough. Nothing is pure enough.
We do not know what problems the planet will face in the future nor can we prevent problems.
Environmentalists should pivot to solving current environmental problems - when they do that they will realize that only technology can ‘save the planet’, not stasis, or sustainability.
The best way to be prepared to solve future problems is to be technologically advanced enough to solve a wider range of problems.
Solving better and better problems is progress. We know we have made progress because we don’t worry anymore about whether we can feed our children - we worry about what to feed them.