> Are the lessons we could apply to lead sustainable lifestyles without abandoning the progress of science, and all the health improvements it brought?
I have met very few people who try to live sustainable lifestyles but actively deny science. I agree that science can help inform and enhance how we live sustainably, but the way this question is posed makes it seem that those who live sustainably also deny reality. (I dont doubt they exist, I know a few, but they are the minority of folks who live this way).
I meant something else: I meant, could we take the sustainability lessons of the Native Tribes in such a way that we both live sustainably and keep furthering science? I.e. it's not about denying reality - it's about continuing to learn more about it, and to apply it.
In the past centuries, most important of scientific discoveries required having an industrial civilization. So implied in my question is, can we keep the progress of technology going (at least the non-abusive parts of it), because it's a flip side of scientific progress - they feed on themselves, and you can't have one without the other.
Yeah I don’t see why not. I’ve collaborated with a handful of scientists of indigenous backgrounds who still practice their culture. That’s never even been a contradiction in their head. Living a sustainable life doesn’t impact or hinder science whatsoever.
I have met very few people who try to live sustainable lifestyles but actively deny science. I agree that science can help inform and enhance how we live sustainably, but the way this question is posed makes it seem that those who live sustainably also deny reality. (I dont doubt they exist, I know a few, but they are the minority of folks who live this way).