The simple fact is that we are too vain and stupid to learn from good examples staring us in the face.
Hunter-gatherers live sustainable for millions of years already.
Agrarian society causes damage since about 12,000 years.
Industrial society wipes out most everything in just about 100 years only.
Let's pin our hopes on "smarter" industry many say...vain and stupid.
All the smart industry of yesterday is destroying us today.
Infinite growth, population increase etc has little to do with our dilemmas.
Every living being is biologically programmed to reproduce, it is the greatest natural force in the world, always was.
Industrial society is the greatest destructive force in the world ever, destroying everything that was built up in millions of years at lightning speed.
The lesson is with the hunter-gatherers clearly.
And because i know all the clichés and false assumptions usually replied with i will tackle some already;
- "But without industrial society we would only live to 35 years old!"
Nonsense, with only a handful of prehistoric human remains they are already dated to 60+ years old.
And when those hunter-gatherers of today are forced out of their habitat we see very old people, tough as nails.
- "You are propagating the Noble Savage theory!"
Nonsense, never heard of it and it sounds pretty stupid. These are simple facts for al to see.
- "But you would have us all living in caves and chucking spears half naked!"
Rubbish, learning from your neighbors does not mean copying them like parrots.
When your garden is all dead and your neighbor's garden is thriving with luscious crops do you try to become your neighbor?
Or do you ask him for growing tips?
- "But those guys don't even have modern medicine and die from diseases!"
So what?
Industrial society has way more suffering and disease, and it's medicine is still largely based on traditional knowledge to begin with anyway.
All beings on Earth have disease, predation, disaster, violence...natural selection which was abandoned by our society.
It only added more problems.
- "But you are a HYPOCRITE Forest because you are writing on a laptop which is an industrial product!"
No shit hey?
People born into industrial society can't escape it's dominance 100% for it is a slave chain and you would end up in jail or dead.
I only managed to discard 80% of industrial participation and footprint personally.
I use a hand me down laptop and fridge and even a Philishave!
I have a 20 year old tv that makes peoples faces purple too!
Shoot me!
So what can one learn from hunter-gatherers?
What is it they do?
It is what they don't do one can learn from, and that would be a million things we think we need to do to our own demise.
They focus on food/water/shelter, a few basic necessities, a song and a dance...pretty damned simple.
To suggest that some of those "primitive" people will survive to restore mankind while 99% of other people kill themselves is ridiculous.
We have already killed 99% of them and the few remaining will be affected like anybody else.
To suggest that life has survived previous mass extinctions, and therefore will again is ridiculous.
What stares us in the face this time is disastrous climate+societal collapse+thousands of nuclear disasters+ hundreds of thousands of chemical disasters, pollution and possibly indeed resulting in nuclear war on top.
Industrial legacy...mankind will go extinct and possibly all life.
And it will indeed be quite 'near term".
Everything is near term in industrial society except that second planet for humanity to mess up as we do this one.
Too bad for Elon Musk who is clearly as insane as he is intelligent....industrial moron