By "Need" you actually mean want and "better" than what? We are living in a big house that is burning down. But a big house is better? You're making all this

By "Need" you actually mean want and "better" than what? We are living in a big house that is burning down. But a big house is better? You're making all this a means to an end, but we haven't gotten to the end yet. The end the means of petroleum created is death. That's neither needed nor better.