Principles
On this page, you can see all the principles of this newsletter, so you can understand the underlying motivations.
All life is equal
We do not put human life above plant and animal life. All life is equal and we do not have the right to choose an economic balance between ecological destruction and our comfort. Moreover, we must account for the damage we have already done to other forms of life on this biosphere.
Technology must be regressed
Technology is the main cause of environmental destruction. Because human beings can lapse into greediness without wisdom, and technology is the main force that allows their expansion, technology must be regressed.
Moreover, technology is not a tool and it grows without bounds. It operates with a deterministic force and that force strengthens every day. Our ability to destroy and regress technology is inversely proportional to this force, so we only have a limited amount of time to destroy it.
Technology should be carefully regulated similar to the way the Amish do it.
AI must be destroyed
A zero tolerance policy towards AI is necessary. The minute, short-term benefits of AI only serve to push us to a new local maximum at the cost of intense dehumanization. AI is fundamentally a disrespect towards biological life and is incompatible with it.
AI must be destroyed at all costs.
One might ask, what is the definition of AI? After all, the most basic machine learning algorithms are equivalent to linear regression. The answer is, almost all of it. Any useful state of machine learning, generative AI such as ChatGPT, LLMs, all must be eradicated. No compromise.
Sources of industrial power must be eliminated
These following sources of industrial power are dangerous and must be eliminated at all costs:
Large corporations — all eliminated
Most global trade — at least a 95% reduction on global trade
All fossil fuels — the fossil fuel industry must be eliminated
Big technology firms. Google, Apple, Amazon, Meta, Tesla — all must be eliminated.
Unsustainable land use — should be made illegal, with severe enforcement. That includes any single entity using more than a small portion of land. Farming can be an exception but it must be sustainable and not encourage monocultures.
High energy use must be stopped, regardless of the energy source whether it is solar power, wind, coal, or something else
Accumulation of large amounts of wealth should be made impossible with new mechanisms.
Land must be returned to wildlife
As a start, 50% of all land must be returned to wildlife as per Edward O. Wilson’s Half Earth policy. We note that 50% is a minimum. Ideally, it should be more.
The human population must be reduced
How much it should be reduced is debatable. But certainly, at most a billion would be a great start. There are plenty of ways to do this ethically and voluntarily:
Contraceptive education
Education in general
Economic incentives to have less children
Society must find a way to be sustainable instead of being predicated on endless growth.