To deal with planetary destruction, gaicide, we should be acting bravely and thinking intelligently. Is energy, and by extension material stuff, the foundation of human society - cars, phones concrete glass, and living stuff we can turn into dead stuff, like lumber, or is it myth that is the foundation of our human world? It seems the default is a material energy sand, water, earth, food. The word material comes from matter, Latin for mother, So the tables turn and we are having to recognize that all was different and more profoundly seen. The very word human comes from humus wet earth.
Is the path to deindustrialization and dematerialization possible without mythification - that is, profound thought on who we are?