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The strength of human civilization has traditionally been measured in terms of its capacity to support human existence by extending the productive capacity of human labor. Industrial development is mankind's means by which to extend the effectiveness of the sum total of human labor that is put into the economic system. The reduction or removal of the industrial component of mankind's economy, which component has so dramatically extended the effectiveness of human labor so that 2750 times as many people can be supported today than the earth can support on its own, leads to a corresponding collapse of civilization in proportion to which the industrial component is withdrawn. The measure of mankind's potential population density is logically the measure of mankind's strength in supporting itself. (Paleolithic, hunter-gatherer societies, maintained a world population of app. 2 million, world wide, compared to today's world-population of 5.5 billion.*(See table, Fidelio, Spring 1995 p.26))
It may even be said that the policy of deindustrialization, inevitably leads to the collapse of the entire pyramid of civilization, including cultural, spiritual, and metaphysical renaissance. The moral, cultural, spiritual, and metaphysical components of mankind's development unfold on top of man's dominance over nature, which in turn reflects itself back into the technological / industrial development of the physical support structure. The two are interlocked. If one takes the technological / industrial component out of this loop, the whole development process becomes dysfunctional, and civilization collapses. Indeed, the introduction of the Post-Industrial Society doctrine marks a decisive turning point in the history of human society, that has brought mankind very much closer towards its pre-Renaissance status of poverty.
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