Environment & Energy

GliderGuider

(21,088 posts) Tue Mar 17, 2015, 06:30 PM Mar 2015

On fixing our problems with technology

The fundamental purpose of technology is to wrench the means of subsistence away from other organisms, and commandeer it for human use alone.

More technology - no matter how "appropriate" - can do nothing but make the planetary problems worse.

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On fixing our problems with technology (Original Post) GliderGuider Mar 2015 OP

Always looking for an exception to prove the rule ... Nihil Mar 2015 #1

How could I have forgotten about thermonuclear weapons? GliderGuider Mar 2015 #2

Technology has moved the planet's equilibrium away from the natural place where it normally resides. Gregorian Mar 2015 #3

Nihil

(13,508 posts)

1. Always looking for an exception to prove the rule ...

Reply to GliderGuider (Original post)

Wed Mar 18, 2015, 05:03 AM

Mar 2015

> More technology - no matter how "appropriate" - can do nothing but make the planetary problems worse.

... "unless he technology was used to drastically reduce the human population suddenly & permanently".

And a Happy Wednesday to you too GG!

GliderGuider

(21,088 posts)

2. How could I have forgotten about thermonuclear weapons?

Reply to Nihil (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 18, 2015, 05:14 AM

Mar 2015

Bambi's best friend...

Happy Wednesday to you too!

Gregorian

(23,867 posts)

3. Technology has moved the planet's equilibrium away from the natural place where it normally resides.

Reply to GliderGuider (Original post)

Wed Mar 18, 2015, 11:45 AM

Mar 2015

To me this has always been the central point of environmental damage.

Now we can discuss whether what we're doing is right or not. But that's a philosophical question. And it may very well be that this is the direction we were meant to go in. After all, who wants to sit in a cold cave recovering from wounds? Or go a week without food?

But if we're trying to fix the problem, who knows better than nature? It's just like health: treat the body right, and it recovers.

By the way, something has been making me laugh as I walk through the redwoods on my property: the trees are going to win this battle.

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