From @ UlrichFY on X: This video is a true waking nightmare for the degrowth ecologist. A robot that tracks pathogens and pests at night using ultraviolet light, without a gram of chemical products, isn't just a gadget... It's enough to make the entire ecologist theology collapse. Here, it's the entrepreneur and the market that offer a truly effective solution to environmental challenges. No constraints, no going back, and no renunciation. The entrepreneur solves the problem by creating abundance where we were promised scarcity. The role of progress has always been that: to produce abundance from natural scarcity, with human ingenuity as the ultimate means. One question remains: if technology truly solves the problems that ecologism claims to fight, why does ecologism hate it so much? Simply because what it wants isn't a preserved nature—it's an administered society, one it would control. Like all other constructivist, socialist, and collectivist ideologies, what truly matters to the ecologist isn't solving the challenges of their time; it's ruling over the people of their time. The hero will always be the entrepreneur, never the one who hates him.

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So the entire argument boils down to "I'm stupid and I only wear clothing made from oil and everyone else should be made to wear clothing made from oil" Ummm, excuse me retards. You can make plastic from plant based oils. Diesel engines were literally built to run on sunflower oil originally. These arguments for why people should be forced to wear plastic and why everything should be made from plastic ate retarded anyway. Truth is that before the oil industry started forcing people to adopt plastic by lobbying governments to mandate it, nobody nobody needed it. Now the fact that corporations and governments are teaming up against citizens and all the most retarded people choose to side with the government and oil corporations against their own self interest just shows that those people are retarded. Enjoy being a slave to the oil industry retards.
EROEI, muh man. We are not gonna feed, clothe, transport and medicate 8B humans on renewables. We could probably do 1B, if we were okay with Industrial-Revolution Era living standards. Industrial global society is riding a tiger; anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something or really bad at maths.