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KBOO
Program::
Air date:
Wed, 12/03/2014 - 9:00am to 10:00am
Why Technology Will Not Save the World, Part 2
We hear excerpts from a conference sponsored by the International Forum On Globalization. Scholars and activists provide an analysis of why immediate change is required in our thinking, behavior, values and economies.
Speakers are David Ehrenfeld of Rutgers University on: De-Extinction and Its Residue Problems; Doug Thompkins of the Foundation for Deep Ecology on Technology & Nature/Clash of Concepts and Wes Jackson of The Land Institute on Nature Is The Final Measure.
"TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION, celebrated throughout history, has had profound effects upon Nature, and human beings - our ways of thought, operating systems, power structures, and how we experience our own existence. This is especially so in the new cyber-tech world. Justifications still range from humanity's "unquenchable thirst" for knowledge, to the impareatives of economic growth, wealth and power in our economic system, to the acclaimed search to bring comfort and happiness to a global population. So, how have we done? What have been the trade offs? Meanwhile, spectacular, dreadful impacts continue and accelerate. Immediate change is required in our thinking, behavior, values and economies, before Nature and society are terminated."
Credits: International Forum On Globalization - www.ifg.org
The International Center For Technology Assessment - www.icta.org
NY Open Center - http://www.opencenter.org/
The Schumacher Center For New Economics - www.centerforneweconomics.org