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 perfluorinated chemicals poison the blood of fetuses. Most non-human living things are contaminated as well.

Présentées comme des outils qui permettront d'augmenter le temps libre des individus et d'améliorer l'efficacité de notre société, ces technologies menacent au contraire de remplacer les êtres humains dans toutes les professions et tous les métiers, et rendent de plus en plus difficile l'exercice d'un travail valorisant. Elles ne servent qu'à accroître le pouvoir de l'élite technocratique et à renforcer l'aliénation de l'être humain.

From China to the United States via Europe and Japan, theNBIC convergence (Nanotechnologies, Biotechnologies, Computer and CognitiveSciences) is a transhumanist society project being adopted without any democratic consultation by all major industrial powers. It is about"improving human performance" and "optimizing living systems". According to experts in “existential risk”, these technologies are potentially more dangerous than nuclear weapons for the survival of the human species.

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 (source: Circle Economy).

Agriculture and industrial plantations are responsible for nearly 90% of water stress and the erosion of 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.  Similarly, the mining industry depletes ecosystems, pollutes water, and displaces communities. In 2019 alone, it extracted 76billion tons of material - a number expected to skyrocket by 2050 (source: Circle Economy).

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 the problems in our lives is increasingly left up to 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.) are 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.