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>>21660592
>while also being aware that technological society will destroy itself anyway so there's no reason to do anything in the first place?
actually you gotta go back to that section of The Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How where he speaks about why collapse needs to be accelerated. Among the reasons: environmental damage, another world war and the most scary of them all, geoengineering.

If the system continues progressing, it will start tampering with the environment permanently, in a way that the climate will be artificial and in the case of a collapse, climate will never heal itself because we inserted a lot of junk in our stratosphere and oceans trying to control its ecological cycles.

It's already happening and yes, it is concerning
Check out what happened in mexico recently:

>https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/24/1066041/a-startup-says-its-begun-releasing-particles-into-the-atmosphere-in-an-effort-to-tweak-the-climate/

>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/02/11/climate-change-activist-goes-rogue-releasing-mini-volcanoes/

>https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/20/1067146/what-mexicos-planned-geoengineering-restrictions-mean-for-the-future-of-the-field/

>https://www.climatechangenews.com/2023/01/18/mexico-plans-to-ban-solar-geoengineering-after-rogue-experiment/