I don't think our problems are a lack of technology. Our problem is that we are incapable as a species of concerted long term planning. We plan by quarters, not by decades, and I don't see that changing anytime soon, if ever, and when faced with as overwhelming a problem as the current global climate crisis or pollution I don't think we're going to offset our short-sighted wastefulness with tech band-aids.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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