Who Cares Wins with Lily Cole

On Tech: Elon Musk and Mark Boyle

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Aug 12, 2020
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ANECDOTE

Mark Boyle's Tech-Free Life

  • Mark Boyle lives entirely without modern technology, which he finds surprisingly rewarding and connects him more deeply to nature.
  • His off-grid life involves manual labor like washing clothes with spring water and fishing by cycling long distances.
INSIGHT

Tech World Is Unsustainable

  • Mark Boyle sees the technological world as inherently destructive and ultimately unsustainable.
  • He believes green tech still relies on industrial systems that damage the planet and doubts it will solve the problems fully.
ANECDOTE

Fishing And Hunger Experience

  • In Mark's lifestyle, fishing requires hours of effort and cycling 20 km; sometimes he catches fish, sometimes not.
  • He values feeling hunger as rare in Western society and believes it changes one’s perception of life.
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