Anti-Tech Resistance

Technological development is providing businesses and states with increasingly powerful and invasive ways to monitor, control, and suppress populations, reducing us to human livestock. This is a process intrinsic to the industrial system, where technical progress “requires the transformation of the entire nation into a concentration camp” (Jacques Ellul)

For more than a century now, manufacturers have been dumping all sorts of pollutants into the environment that contaminate the air, land, rivers and oceans. There is no organic food left on Earth. Microplastics are detected in human lungs and brains, and PFC chemicals poison the blood of fetuses. Most non-human animals are contaminated as well.

Presented as tools that will bring individuals more freedom and increase the efficiency of our society, these technologies threaten to replace human beings in all jobs and crafts, making it more and more difficult to find a fulfilling role in society. This technology is used to strengthen the technocratic elite and reinforce the alienation of the individual.

Technological elites love to talk about "upgrading humanity" and creating a new human, one with "upgraded genetics", with a brain connected to a computer all the time. This rabid search for efficiency will only continue the annihilation of everything it means to be human,  and further reduce humans to components of a greater social machine.
These implants and genetic modifications may be optional to begin with, but the advantages they bring in modern society will soon make it impossible to compete with those who elect to have them. A human will become a perfectly efficient tool of the industrial system.

In 2019, the mining industry pulled 76 billion tons of material from the Earth's crust, a figure that is expected to explode by 2050. Non-metallic minerals come out on top, followed by fossil fuels and then metal ores. These extraction operations leave vast ecological graveyards and poison the river and groundwater for generations. But the production and use of modern technology is completely dependent on these materials.

Agriculture and industrial plantations are responsible for nearly 90% of water stress and damage to biodiversity in the world, according to the UN resources panel. Industrial forms of agriculture use genetically modified crops and toxic chemicals to replace sustainable farming with extractive industry, and replace nutritious, natural food with tasteless manufactured products.

Diseases linked to industrial lifestyles are exploding all over the world. Two billion people are already overweight or obese, and half of the world's population is expected to be affected by 2030. Cancers, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, asthma, allergies, obesity, depression, dementia and psychological disorders of all kinds are multiplying in urbanized and industrialized regions.

Life in the techno-industrial system loses meaning, as we are made to live by the rules of an ever-tightening technological maze. Control over our environment and over the issues of our lives is increasingly dependent on the decisions of automatic systems with no regard for human life or freedom. Depression, anxiety, and feelings of helplessness and loss of control run rampant.

Necessary for industrialization and development, the construction of buildings and infrastructure (roads, highways, bridges, ports, airports, railways, water and electricity networks, etc.) is one of the main drivers of resource extraction. The natural world - the natural environment of humans - is slowly being squeezed out of existence, replaced by a sterile world of concrete and steel.

Industrial society is unable to survive without coal, gas, and oil. According to the IMF, 85% of total global energy subsidies go to fossil fuels. These will be extracted until they are exhausted before being replaced by other sources of energy that are potentially even more destructive. The burning of these fuels is creating chemical imbalances in our atmosphere which are beginning to change the global climate at a rate faster than it ever has outside of known extinction events. The effects on the ecosystem are completely unpredictable and have been devastating so far.