Who Is Designing Your Tech Toolkit?

The non-Amish white people think they're really "free" and are able to use any technology they want.

Ha!

Your "council of elders" is going to make it impossible for you to drive your gasoline or diesel car in the not too distant future, except they aren't in your community and you don't know who they are, where they are, etc... It's some castle dwelling inbred freaks in Europe and on the East Coast of the US who are deciding your car is bad, while their private planes are good.

So when you see an Amish guy driving around in a buggy, and feel smug and superior, maybe you should realize that your buggy is about to be forcibly replaced because some randos don't like it and think your tech toolkit should not include an internal combustion engine because "green" stuff. Their track record at choosing technology is extremely bad, by the way, from the point of view of pollution and environmental damage. Arguably, cars and trucks are getting less and less polluting, and could continue down that road for decades... but nah, let's trash the entire transportation fleet and use batteries that'll just produce different forms of pollution because "green".

They don't want you to eat beef, either. Cows fart. Sure, there were 30 million+ bison, plus all kinds of other herbivores in the US prior to settlement, but cow farts are different than buffalo farts as far as global climate warming change is concerned. The thing that won't be a problem is factory grown GMO insect protein paste. That'll be fantastic.

The difference between the non-Amish whites and the Amish is their rules are more or less geared toward their quality of life, while ours are meant to keep us in the cage or on the hamster wheel as long as possible.