Editing Industrial Revolution (section)

===Primitivism===
{{main|Pre-industrial society|Anarcho-primitivism|Primitivism}}
[[File:La vida tranquila (25922837736).jpg|thumb|A primitive lifestyle living outside the Industrial Revolution]]
[[Primitivism]] argues that the Industrial Revolution has created an unnatural frame of society and the world in which humans need to adapt to an unnatural urban landscape in which humans are perpetual cogs without personal autonomy.<ref>{{Cite journal |url=http://www.fraw.org.uk/data/ap/el-Ojeili_taylor_2020.pdf |author=Chamsy el-Ojeili |author2=Dylan Taylor |date=2020 |title='The Future in the Past': Anarcho-primitivism and the Critique of Civilization Today |journal=Rethinking Marxism |volume=32 |issue=2 |pages=168–186 |doi=10.1080/08935696.2020.1727256 |s2cid=219015323 |access-date=6 October 2021 |archive-date=6 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211006003121/http://www.fraw.org.uk/data/ap/el-Ojeili_taylor_2020.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

Certain primitivists argue for a return to pre-industrial society,<ref>{{Cite journal |jstor=30301899|title=The State of Nature: The Political Philosophy of Primitivism and the Culture of Contamination|last1=Smith|first1=Mick|journal=Environmental Values|year=2002|volume=11|issue=4|pages=407–425|doi=10.3197/096327102129341154|bibcode=2002EnvV...11..407S }}</ref> while others argue that technology such as [[modern medicine]], and [[Intensive farming|agriculture]]<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Wild-life: anarchy, ecology, and ethics|first=Mick|last=Smith|date=2007|journal=Environmental Politics|volume=16|issue=3|pages=470–487 |doi=10.1080/09644010701251714|bibcode=2007EnvPo..16..470S |s2cid=144572405}}</ref> are all positive for humanity assuming they are controlled by and serve humanity and have no effect on the natural environment.