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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 38 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Humans would rapidly organize right back into cities and make up whatever rules or interpretations of Amish law/religion that allowed them to. People gonna be people and ignore or twist religion to do whatever they want.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 34 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Humans would rapidly organize right back into cities

The Amish already live in townships. Congregations of humans are generally better for the environment than far-flung rural enclaves with low-efficiency infrastructure.

People seem to forget how much ecological destruction occurred at or prior to an Amish standard of living. Case in point, the deforestation of Europe

the bulk of which was completed before the 16th century.

"Primitive" does not mean "ecologically sustainable". Quite a bit of our animal husbandry, agricultural, and pre-industrial economic activity were horrifyingly bad. We just weren't operating at the scale of eight billion humans while we were living like that.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago

Yep. Coal and wood as the main energy sources are absolutely awful. Global warming would be gone because people would be dead from the pollution. There's a reason that there were tons of maids cleaning old mansions constantly.