The industrial era is nothing more than subsidised costs by means of fossil fuels and the destruction of our environment, with all progress being made tending to be zero sum. Oh so we discovered antibiotics? Great, but now we have to deal with increasing rates of diabetes, cancer, heart and immunodeficiency diseases. And even though some people would like to make us think that our life expectancy has gone up, that&#x27;s only true for the average because of increased expectancy at birth. Plus we are not measuring quality of life. You know, the only real progress we&#x27;ve made is in terms of education and individual rights.<p>I&#x27;m actually starting to think that the Industrial Age is the worst thing that could have happened to human kind. Even this antibiotics apocalypse, along with outbreaks of potentially deadly viruses, like the mad cow disease or the aviary flu, are caused by industrial farming practices, which are also guilty of polluting the soil they stand on and the nearby water streams, damaging the area and the people living nearby,<p>A post-industrial age is long overdue.