Comments on: The New Environmentalism Will Lead Us to Disaster . . . https://habitablezone.com/2014/06/24/the-new-environmentalism-will-lead-us-to-disaster/ Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:07:28 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2014/06/24/the-new-environmentalism-will-lead-us-to-disaster/#comment-31142 ER Tue, 24 Jun 2014 18:13:07 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=45878#comment-31142 "Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves." The monkey engineers, and their merchant masters, mistake the cleverness to make a thing with the wisdom necessary to use it wisely. We have the ability to alter the world, but we lack the knowledge to foresee just how those changes will eventually manifest themselves. The stone statues of Easter Island testify silently to this, but we choose not to listen. “Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves.”

The monkey engineers, and their merchant masters, mistake the cleverness to make a thing with the wisdom necessary to use it wisely.

We have the ability to alter the world, but we lack the knowledge to foresee just how those changes will eventually manifest themselves. The stone statues of Easter Island testify silently to this, but we choose not to listen.

]]> By: mcfly https://habitablezone.com/2014/06/24/the-new-environmentalism-will-lead-us-to-disaster/#comment-31141 mcfly Tue, 24 Jun 2014 15:36:37 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=45878#comment-31141 <i>The answer, they say, is not to change course but to more tightly “embrace human power, technology, and the larger process of modernization.”</I> The ecopragmatists don't want to tell us what to do, it seems. They just want us to smile & be happy. The answer, they say, is not to change course but to more tightly “embrace human power, technology, and the larger process of modernization.”

The ecopragmatists don’t want to tell us what to do, it seems. They just want us to smile & be happy.

]]> By: DanS https://habitablezone.com/2014/06/24/the-new-environmentalism-will-lead-us-to-disaster/#comment-31139 DanS Tue, 24 Jun 2014 14:24:20 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=45878#comment-31139 That's a tough audience. (n/t) That’s a tough audience. (n/t)

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]]> By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2014/06/24/the-new-environmentalism-will-lead-us-to-disaster/#comment-31137 ER Tue, 24 Jun 2014 13:43:38 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=45878#comment-31137 "I've got a great idea, now here's what YOU need to do." “I’ve got a great idea, now here’s what YOU need to do.”

]]> By: mcfly https://habitablezone.com/2014/06/24/the-new-environmentalism-will-lead-us-to-disaster/#comment-31135 mcfly Tue, 24 Jun 2014 13:22:35 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=45878#comment-31135 Perhaps the ultimate expression of capitalism is to embrace all change--even if it's global and catastrophic--as "opportunity." We're a sad, dangerous bunch of monkeys. Perhaps the ultimate expression of capitalism is to embrace all change–even if it’s global and catastrophic–as “opportunity.” We’re a sad, dangerous bunch of monkeys.

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