Chthulucene is right--we don't even know what kind of insane technologies are going to be haphazardly deployed into our environment with great hubris and naivety by industry scientists acting as if our shared sacred space is one giant laboratory.

Where does this arrogance come from? Culture. I think Terence McKenna got it right--it's our culture: it's not our friend. We've had since the 1970s to do nothing. I know, I've lived since then. When I was 6 ish, I recall hearing about deforestation of the rainforest in Brazil and how bad that was ecologically. When I was 12, my vegan seventh day adventist friend and family were warning about all the problems in the world. Obviously I listened, and it shaped me into the ultra eco liberal person I am today, but still, I'm 40 now and not only has nothing happened, it's gotten worse. But you know, many of my conservative friends would like to have the rainforests be intact also. They've been thru the same school system, they understand the import of these things, but they consider it a lesser priority than the great Economy and their perceived importance and priority and privilege of Corporations, because without them--they claim--our society would fall apart. This type of attitude exists on the left as well, so I deem these people either establishment sympathizers or status quotarians. By falling to cynicism of being unable to affect a change on this thing, we create a perpetual non-motion machine by self-fulfilling prophecy; we say we can't do anything and therefore we don't do anything and nothing happens. We just wait out the timer to the eventual ecological apocalypse. It's super f*cking, beyond dumb and I hate it.

But when you take a look at the forces that shape this cultural attitude, you get the usual suspects: the media, the church. Bascially it comes down to authoritarianism. Who's driving the narratives? It's clear there's an agenda and that agenda is a money grab--to stimulate the economy to extract the most wealth from everyone as fast as you can. I see this as an ever accelerating process. When you peel back layers, you realize that there is a Cabal or ruling class that is driving this. People imagine they are trying to cull population or create one big government or just make money so they can escape to underground or to space. It doesn't really matter. But we know they are pulling the strings, and if we could find a way to cut those strings, we could move forward in a real way to create abundance for everyone and fix everything. But not while they are running a widespread, global media-based (traditional and social) psyop campaign called 'shaping culture to believe we don't have any power to change anything and if we try we are severely punished'.

We have no need to fear them, we just have to figure out how to create a world within our world that doesn't include them. We start by stopping consuming their toxins and becoming self-sufficient individually; which could include creating nature-harmonious intentional communities. People say this is escapist, but if you defund them to nothing, they won't be able to afford to build gray-goo scenario nanobots that ruin the world. They also don't get to make spider-milk goats that glow and/or produce altered ebola products, or build their space elevator only they can use.