Descartes has a lot to answer for!

This was an interesting one to ponder. On one hand you have Descartes to thank for lots of progress. I don't think all the progress that was made was necessarily good. Our planet is pretty trashed after that Industrial Revolution. It makes me wonder if we hadn't been steered to the path of observing all of nature in a mechanical fashion or trying to understand all of nature with only that which we could concretely understand, would we have advanced in a more harmonious and non-invasive way? Would we be a kindlier gentler people if we had made our leaps and bounds with the idea that we are natural and that nature cannot be concretely explained beneath a microscope? Would we have started with machines that collected energy from the sun or spent our time healing and curing with the energy we have within us instead of knives and poisons we cook in a lab? Hard to say. What if we had taken a path that was not the one Descartes envisioned?