> Every baby step away from industrialization is a step towards sustainability.

This seems to be at the core of many of my acquaintance's "principles", for lack of a better term. But it seems counter-intuitive to me: doesn't industrialization allow for:

* better efficiency (larger scale)

* higher technology, allowing more efficient techniques, again

?

At some point, you can't have each of us working on a small 1-family farm if we still want to be able to have, e.g. computers, high quality medicine, travels, etc.

Is "industrialization" the enemy here or is it growth and generalized overconsumption?