At least the writers confess they are moved by &quot;deep love and emotional connection to the natural world&quot;. And from there I guess it&#x27;s not too difficult to build up a dream that morally allows you to keep your current over-consuming habits which are trashing the planet, while claiming that you LOVE nature and at the same time not pissing off anyone by avoiding all politics to get in the mix.<p>The ecological problem is a bit more complex that blind trust in technology and efficiency progress. Blind faiths, simplifications and master plans have added little (from ecomodernism to primitivism). The problems of democracy, discrimination and redistribution of wealth have a lot to say, but that&#x27;s too tough for a cute little manifesto.<p>They speak of technology &quot;applied with wisdom&quot;, &quot;with proper management&quot;. So I take that, until now, we have just mismanaged technology and applied it in dullest ways. Or I guess they have a secret plan on how to manage technology correctly from now on. Or perhaps they will come to realize that technology has and will always have a good and bad side, and that most of its consequences (good and bad) are often unforeseeable, and as such, hard to steer. Let&#x27;s not even think of WHO actually controls technology.<p>What&#x27;s more, the &quot;decoupling&quot; of human well-being from human impact is a myth. The impact has just been transferred to third world countries where sure none of these ecomodernists live or probably ever visited. Lol when they take &quot;New England&quot; and &quot;France&quot; forests as examples. Any plans to bring up the 80% of undeveloped countries to the pace of the 20% with nice growing forests? None.<p>This is the typical manifesto which is absolutely nothing new, sounds super nice, but changes nothing, provides nothing, and feels about right in the hands of the rich and ruling elites because it absolutely avoids to question any status-quo whatsoever.