I think blaming the UK industrial revolution for our current predicament is a bit like blaming the Sumerians for Mein Kampf and the rude words sprayed on the wall of your local railway station 🙂 .... the whole world took the idea and ran with it .... the resulting prosperity and abundance has facilitated the rampant population growth that has driven us to our current situation .... our atavistic instincts to breed and gather stuff have changed from being valid survival traits to the engine of our downfall ..... basic Human Nature .... and it will be rational understanding that will allow us to over-ride that programming .... my worry, in my previous post, is that huge swathes of the world's population don't share that sense of Human agency ... relying on divine guidance in a book instead ... and I doubt the religious monoliths will be able to change in time.
K
