- Technology is the enemy of Nature
- The primary usage of technology is faster extraction of resources
- There is a direct correlation between usage of technology and consumption of resources. As technological progress has zoomed after World War 2, so has the extraction of natural resources.
- Technology begets Technology. If you put up an automobile manufacturing ‘plant’, you will need lots of ancillary industries as well, to keep feeding it with inputs. These plants will themselves need resources & energy from other plants.
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- Technology causes loss of jobs by increasing resource extraction efficiency
- Technology decimates ancient traditions, nature-based lifestyles and sustainable practices
- The rate of change of technology is exponential. Every new change happens at a faster rate.
- Initially technology was employed for consumption of the Earth’s resources. Now one of the major usages of technology is consuming human mindspace.
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- Technology and capital are intimately connected. Both feed on each other.
- There’s a vicious cycle at play with technology and economics acting in a feedback loop
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- Technology has caused mankind’s deleterious impact to spread far and wide, from the depths of the ocean to the outer reaches of space.
- Wherever technology comes into play, it leaves a trail of toxic wastes, poisonous effluents and dangerous byproducts.
- Technology has helped mankind’s depredations to reach a global scale. In earlier times also, mankind had the intention & capacity to destroy the environment. However, the extent of the damage was limited to his immediate surroundings because of man’s inherent capabilities.
- With the usage of technology, man’s destructive potential has increased manifold, and its impact now reaches every corner of the Earth.
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- The usage of technology is the biggest source of fossil fuel emissions.
- With increasing usage of technology fuels consumption will keep increasing at exponential rates.
- Overall energy consumption keeps increasing with technology, unlike what techno-optimists keep telling us.
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- Technology increases the rate of entropy of processes on the earth. This is indirectly causing the earth to heat up.
- Because of the laws of thermodynamics, every technological process leads to a wastage of energy and materials.
- Technological processes create materials and compounds, which are unknown to the earth and hence cannot be recycled.
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- Technology is an extension of the human ego.
- Technology only destroys life forms, it cannot create life
