Agrarian society is a form of Industrial Society. It has sustained and enabled industrialisation, and they co-depend. Without some mechanisation; such as a simple plough or ard. And to make a plough requires industry.sushil_yadav wrote:Man is not the only inhabitant of this planet......This planet is home to millions of other species too.....It is not the play ground of the human species which can do anything it wants.....Welfare of millions of other species has to be kept in mind.
Industrial Society has destroyed most of the biodiversity and ecosystems on earth.
Industrialization was the biggest crime on earth....The biggest act of killing, murder and terrorism on earth.
This planet can only sustain "Food Searching" or "Food Producing" Societies.
Hunter_Gatherer Society was sustainable.....Agrarian Society was sustainable.....The question of Industrial Society being sustainable doesn't arise.
Millions of other species destroy environment only for food.
Human species is the only lunatic species that has destroyed environment for food, clothing, shelter and thousands of consumer goods and services.
One does not need to do research for 10,000 years to know what is wrong with human lifestyle.....It is so very obvious and crystal clear.
Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment
In a hunter-gatherer society, when you misuse the environment gathering or hunting too much you get immediate negative feedback. You reap the consequences of your abuse immediately. This teaches careful use and moderate exploitation. If you are greedy you suffer for it.
As soon as a seed is planted, you have to invent the horror of ownership of land and other forms of static property. You have to stop moving and protect the land, build houses and try to convince hunter-gatherers that you have privileged access to the land you have planted.
As your society grows, h-g groups are pushed out of their lands, and you begin to encroach on other agrarian groups.
Pretty soon conflict and protection become necessary features of life. A warrior class grows who take over the running of society. The worker in the field is enslaved and lives only to work under the yoke of the new ruling class. Religion is then used to justify that leadership and freedom has vanished. There followed a growing exploitation of the environment to the point of utter destruction. Where this happened first in the Levant is now a desert wilderness that stretches across the Levant through North Africa, which as seen a massive growth of desert over thousands of years. The forests of Europe have been slashed and burned. But in North America the forests are now at 5% of their original size - this has been done most in the last 250 years.
THis has been the case from 10,000 bce to today, except that in the last 150 years in the West, slavery has been abolished; social welfare and fair wages have been instigated; medicine and sanitation have improved and extended lives.
Ordinary people are now reaping the benefits of science and other forms of learning, and are now also shrugging off the yoke of religion. We are now more informed, knowledgeable, and aware of the earth and the far universe.
The trick is not to return to hunting a gathering, but to figure out how to keep the recent benefits of civilisation but to keep the earth and its environment save.
