If you lend your skills to other systems that you don't really believe in, then you might as well never have lived. You haven't expressed yourself.

A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).

"Should we tamper with nature?" is no longer a question - we've tampered with nature on the whole face of the Earth.

Compressed air can provide limitless amounts of clean energy using technology we have had for hundreds of years.

Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains

What is proposed herein is that we have no right, nor any ethical justification, for clearing land or using wilderness while we tread over lawns, create erosion, and use land inefficiently. Our responsibility is to put our house in order. Should we do so, there will never be any need to destroy wilderness.

Say you're working for a big overseas aid organization. You can't leave home in a Mercedes Benz, travel 80 kilometers to work in a great concrete structure where there are diesel engines thundering in the basement just to keep it cool enough for you to work in, and plan mud huts for Africa! You can't get the mud huts right if you haven't got things right where you are. You've got to get things right, working for you, and then go and say what that is.