Technological fundamentalism
Gurumurthy K
as we increasingly use and become dependant on technology, it is useful to be sensitive to the danger of Technological fundamentalism....
regards
Guru
Technological fundamentalism is a form of magical thinking that
promises a way out of the problems that the extractive/industrial
economy has created.
Technological fundamentalists believe that the
increasing use of evermore sophisticated high-energy advanced technology
is always a good thing and that any problems caused by the unintended
consequences of previous high-energy/high-technology “solutions”
eventually can be remedied by more technology. Perhaps the ultimate
example of this fundamentalism is “geo-engineering,” the belief that we
can intervene in the climate system at the planetary level to deal with
global warming.
Given massive human failure at much lower levels of intervention, this approach—for example, what is called “solar radiation management,” which would inject sulfate aerosols into the stratosphere to reflect back sunlight—is, quite literally, insane.
read rest of the article on http://www.nationofchange.org/news/2016/07/19/what-is-the-world-who-are-we-what-are-we-going-to-do-about-it/
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