While renewable energy has been considered a step forward because of its less carbon footprint, a lot of environmentalists ask if this renewable energy is also green? Similarly, many other questions arise when it comes to technological advancements, whether it is about food security which seems to have increased over the years but at the same time health and well-being have been going down recently, the productivity is improving in almost all sectors but at the cost of the environment. In short, anytime we have come up with a solution for an existing problem we have ended up with a set of new problems to follow up on.

Around a year ago when I was in France, I decided to homestay with a family that lived in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France. While the stay was ordinary like any other of my Couchsurfing or homestay it was a unique experience to learn the values of family. For 3 days I spent with them the first two were in their home in Marseille while the third day we went to a farmhouse. I remember it was Saturday and we went to harvest the “produce of the week”. Marion and Robin who were my host introduced me to the concept of net-zero by growing their food, processing their waste, and living as a naturist. Even their house in Marseille was total zero-waste heaven.

Marion and I had a very long conversation about the net-zero lifestyle that night where she explained to me how everything worked with her and her family. The two kids were the only ones to consume clothing, while even their clothes were made totally out of organic material according to Robin. As per my point of view, it was a luxury that they were able to afford all this, however, according to Marion even though it was a luxury, given the circumstances was changed she was happy to just get rid of customary clothing all along.

All the food that was being consumed by the family was being produced through the farmhouse and all the energy was being produced via the windmill located in the farmhouse. Although for their house in Marseille was being powered by solar which is one of the reasons Robin wanted to leave the house and start living on the farm. However, circumstances did not support this since they were raising 2 children who required education, socializing and other basic needs that will be hard to have in a suburb.

I remember when we were concluding the conversation at night Marion mentioned one statement that was enlightening to me. She said, “Look at where we stand today, there are 8 billion people and the population is increasing while the quality of life keeps decreasing, the conventional farming is an issue, energy need is an issue, the thing is if our growth was organic, we would not be in the problem we are as of today” and I think it makes sense. We keep delaying the inevitable with what we are doing. We keep hanging onto a new ledge and eventually, everything will crumble to the bottom. Our best choice is to have organic growth and move toward primitive technologies and naturistic beliefs.

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Let us take an example from one of my favourite countries across Europe. Poland was one of the first countries around Europe to resist mandatory COVID lockdown. But not long into the whole chaotic fear the left-wing of Poland started working their way into making people believe a lockdown was very much needed and was costing lives in the country. While not only this was just outright a lie, it was also political propaganda to score points against the running government.

Regardless, it worked out and the left-wing of the country celebrated this as a victory for their politics since the masses would consider this as a defeat of the running government. However, only a few months later, while the dust still hadn’t settled completely Polish Government signed a decree that would ban abortion access for women across the country unless there was an acceptable reason for this. This bill created chaos for the left-wing since it caused a stir for women right across the EU. Not only did the Polish government face a backlash locally it had to face repercussions in the EU as well as globally.

Sadly, a precinct was already set, and medical autonomy no longer existed in the European framework and was overshadowed by recent global development. This not only happened in Poland but in many other European and non-European countries. In France, the crisis was used to overshadow the yellow west protest, in Greece it was used to stop student protests, even in China it was used to prevent Hong Kong protests. Although each was celebrated by a group of people, one who considers this as their own political victory, but little do they know all of this can come to bite them back in future, only it will be much worse.

I want everyone reading this to just imagine for a second the most extremist political leader you can think of, for me it will be Genghis Khan, and think all the power your own government has what of somehow this person secures it. Remember, seizing power is quite easy if you don’t have a moral obligation to play fair and an evil person has no morals. I can guarantee for myself I would never want this sort of power in the hand of a saint let alone an evil person.

Hence, the best idea we have for now is to limit government power as much as possible to a point that even if a tyrannical government takes over, the weakest individual in the country can take a stronger stance against the tranny.

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