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When you revert to pure agriculturalism, where does that happen exactly, it is in the environment. Fighting industry, is a return to nature, which happens to be, the environment. To imply that Kaczynski wasn't concerned with the environment is pretty large stretch, especially considering all the people that consider him an eco-fascist fighting for the environment.

To all the other replies about "this or that solution" is not really helping the environment. So what. Do something. Calling out how some things have failed as a seeming argument to give up and just pollute is a failure mind set. "Oh well, recycling didn't work as well as we thought, guess I'll just dump my hamburger wrapper in the ditch", is BS. Do people really not remember how polluted the highways used to be with trash, or rivers catching on fire from chemical dumping. We have made progress, and we should try to make more progress. Not be like "well EV's still create a lot of waste, guess I'll just go de-tune my Mustang and do some dragging this weekend". I can't believe how many people split hairs on some technology-X and use it as excuse to do nothing.



> When you revert to pure agriculturalism, where does that happen exactly, it is in the environment.

Everything happens “in the environment”, of course.

What I meant was that Ted Kaczynski’s main motivation for wanting to return to primitive agriculturalism was not a concern about industrialization damaging the environment. So he would not have cared about EVs or recycling as they are still happening in a technological society.


Your are correct. Guess it is more subtle reading. He was against industry, so many people would call him an environmentalist. But EV's are pretty bad example on my part, because of course they would require industry.




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