Utopia is always just ahead.
I can contrast the whole in my iwn conflicts. I admire machines, hate noise. I am, as the miners say, afraid of the dark, so dont like tunnel mines but also do not like the muhlenberg county open pits. And the reclaimed hollers aint the same.
Concrete blocks used to be cinder blocks fly ash is a source of lithium. Fly ash is important for cement cement needs kilns run by gas. The roads need concrete and asphalt (oil). Plastic and rubber need oil. Steel needs coked coal.
Paper bags are replacing plastic bags that replaced paper bags. Meantime the towel tp people are bragging about planting trees. You bet, they own huge commercial forests and trees are a crop. We can go back to a garden of eden that never was, the dark ages, 40 acres and a mule, or use industry to maintain civilization. take your choice