>What do you mean plague vaccine? We need to stop dreaming about magic solutions and just stop living in cities
>Farming? No this will never work, just stop reproducing. And collect more berries.
>Fire? Why do we need fire? It's dangerous and hot food is a luxury.
Also, and more importantly - it's easy to categorize problems retroactively based on how they were eventually resolved; not so easy to apply this categorization with foresight.
Finally - some problems have both societal and technological aspects, and so do their solutions.
2. With the exception of up until modern times, farming, like many other major changes in human habitation, never threatened our existence on this planet.
3. Fire is dangerous, but the benefits vastly outweighed the dangers, and also did not permanently, in the chronological perspective of human beings, threaten our ecosystem.
We've got exactly one planet's worth of resources to consume in our reach for the stars. Doing nothing and doing it wrong gets us extinction on basically the same galactic time scale.
What a tragedy though, to have a real shot and burn it all up trying to get each other to click on ads for plastic crap no one needed.
Better or worse?