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foggymorn wrote

Anything rooted in industrial technology isn't sustainable because industry doesn't just sit still, it grows and spreads and destroys everything in its path.

There are no non-anticiv schools of anarchism that have put even an iota of thought into actually ending climate change. They might make vague allusions to 'sustainable' tech (solarpunk) or ridiculous expectations for space mining and uploading humans to the cloud (anarcho-transhumanism) but none of them are based in reality or have any understanding of what it means to really oppose hierarchy.

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celebratedrecluse wrote (edited )

This isn't wrong, but I think there are additional theoretical perspectives and praxes which could be articulated.

The use of biotechnology, such as photoelectric bacteria, could become the basis for a greening and decentralization of electric systems. Additionally, the use of homemade "pharmaceuticals" via a variety of possible methods (isolation from engineered bacterial cultures, automated chemical reactions ala 4 Thieves, etc) could reduce, and eventually eliminate, reliance on industrially produced chemicals for healthcare purposes. A proliferation of raincatches and water purification/storage technology would eliminate reliance on managed watersheds, dams, etc. This is just a sampling of possibilities, but there are flaws in all of them-- it will be a long road to a deindustrialized technological mode.

At the end of the day, the primitivist framework provides indispensible tools for confronting the root causes of climate change, theoretically and practically. However, I think that realistically speaking technologies could be reimagined in such a way as to help end the industrial mode of production. Honestly, I sure hope we can make it so, because I am not willing to let people who are not able to live well without medical technology or running water simply suffer, let alone die

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