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Historically, truly sustainable lifestyle belongs to the pre-Industrial era. Every technology of ancient and Medieval era was sustainable, for which both energy and mass sources were natural. The introduction of electricity (artificial energy) and ubiquitous plastic (artificial mass) has created the culture of crisis that the world faces today. As we entered the Information Age, both the political ‘left’ and ‘right’ have missed the point that artificial lifestyle makes a process unsustainable. Politically, it has become fashionable to characterize petroleum (and all carbon-based energy technologies) as the source of unsustainability, while hailing non-carbon based sources as inherently sustainable (naming them ‘renewable’). The climate change crisis has been utilized to drum up support for the ‘left’. The ‘right’ on the other hand has failed to highlight the real positive aspects of fossil fuel, thereby marginalizing themselves as opposers of ‘settled science’, or worse, conspiracy theorists. This debate has been accentuated in the Information Age, with no end in sight.