Is technology and environmentalism compatible? Is technology neutral?

[Human No More]

Well, the eventual (if still relatively distant) solution is matter replication, which eliminated shortages of anything but needs large amounts of energy and will only be practical even when it's possible once fusion is a viable source of energy unless an alternative is used such as a Dyson Sphere (which is itself far more complicated and expensive than development of fusion ).

I know your view on all this, after all, all you need to do is look at your sig , but for me and I'm sure for the vast majority of people here, technology is not going to go, and if it does, the truth is that with the current level of overpopulation, loss of what we have would be an even bigger risk to the biodiversity of the planet as inhospitable areas would become almost completely uninhabitable and far more rainforest would need to be destroyed for agriculture. Not to mention that without any technology, several billion people would starve within a few years, more over time. World wars would probably be enough to destroy all or the majority of the rest of the population. The cost to the planet's biodiversity would be catastrophic - no point preserving rainforest when you need that land for food. No point preserving some rare species when you can't eat them and they eat animals you depend on to survive. No WAY to preserve them even.
You talk about mining, yet you don't realise that even in lower technology, mining would have to be performed in order to produce most objects, without the controls today that help minimise impact (not saying they are perfect, as in many countries there is far too much corruption and efforts to save money which result in their often being overlooked, but that's a societal issue).

Technology enables new possibilities, it allows us to learn more about the world (I suppose you'd think that's negative though), allows us to experience new places and people, it connects us all. It has been massively abused in the past, but there is no reason to blame the tool instead of the person using it.