Essential

The impression that an artifice is indispensable or not depends primarily on psychological factors and choices of life.

For example, heating is essential in cold areas, but the fact of settling and residing in cold areas results from a choice, or from certain historical constraints stemming from choices made, for example, by invaders. A powerful car seems essential to many people, while a change of attitude is sufficient to satisfy a less polluting model. Cereal monocultures, with all their ecological nuisances, multiplied with intensive livestock farming, while grass-fed animals would be better for health and the environment.

We must ask ourselves, in the face of every artifice harmful to the natural environment or harmful to our health, what psychological factors, or what psycho-affective imbalances hidden behind our habits of life make them seem indispensable.

This refers to this other question: to what extent are these factors innate or, on the contrary, induced by cultural avatars subject to bail? In the first case, the remedies must be sought; in the second, looking for causes…