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pyronik19 | 1 year ago

And antibiotics, computers, fertilizer, electricity, cars, stem cells, etc

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying throw caution to the wind, but ludditism also isn't the answer.

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lm28469|1 year ago

> And antibiotics, computers, fertilizer, electricity, cars, stem cells, etc

What did it bring ? At what cost ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction

Nasrudith|1 year ago

The Holocene extinction was started when pointed sticks were state of the art and we ate most megafauna to extinction. It would be more the Anthropocene to blame if anything. Blaming high technology is thus rather anachronistic.

Personally I'm of the opinion that the world was already on fire as it were, what with the mass extinctions caused when we became an invasive species out of Africa. If we were still stuck in the stone age like our predecessors we would still be an ongoing mass-extinction. There is some hope to eventually not be an ongoing mass extinction but that would require some combination of even better technology and the right priorities.