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100% for real. On top of the fact that the 4th panel would read:

POOF NO MORE HUMAN RIGHTS NO MORE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH NO MORE FREEDOM OF/FROM RELIGION

Agreed, humans are terrible, no matter our political or technological beliefs.

Also it's not a way of life that scales well to 8 billion people. Wood fires produce way more exhaust at the cost of many trees, while electric heat can be powered by the sun or a flowing river.

Livestock produce tons of CO2, and farming takes a lot of land. We can't all be Amish, and it certainly wouldn't solve climate change.

It might not be the answer, but it certainly is one, if everyone does it.

And deaths from tooth aches, small cuts, the flu...

Global warming would continue tho even if this happened.

And animal cruelty.

And also, continued global warming.

Seriously, why does anyone think regressive religious principles would do anything but continue the pillaging of natural resources? Amish are just cosplayers riding on the successes of an industrial civilization, most of them are capitalists who use technology to create crafts to sell to midwest white middle-class folk as their primary means of sustenance.

Amish attitudes towards technology are so contradictory and flimsy they make fantasy genres like Warhammer 40k look sensible.

We been spending most our lives
Livin' in an Amish paradise! Ooh Oh Ooooh!
I churned butter once or twice
Livin' in an Amish paradise! Ooh Oh Ooooh!

My father claims the simple life on a homestead is way closer to nature and pollutes less than living in a city.

He cuts his wood with a chainsaw that's using a mixture of gas and oil. This gas and oil certainly doesn't come from the trees. Its imported. But it's apparently the traditional way.

Then in winter he burns the wood to heat the house and it creates a circle of soot in the white snow all around it. But it's all natural. On certain days, when you go outside around his house, you can taste the wood burning in the air. All natural!

If we all go back to owning our plot of land and exploit it like settlers, surely this is going to be good for the environment.

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.

Do you see any buttons after the button was pressed? 😎

I have a neighbour willing to show me her ankles so I still support this.