Originally Posted by sanspeur
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Do you have an example of these negative global changes?
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Economics as a human invention or the abstract idea that we can spend money we do not even have.
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I can give quite a few positive ones, like the eradication of smallpox, and the control of many diseases that were formerly fatal or disabling. The increase in the world food supply...The list goes on and on...
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The problem is that the things you have listed as positive can also be seen as negative.
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The negative side to this is that we are defeating most of nature's methods of controlling our population.
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This is exactly what I meant.
The problem of human technology is that it generally only benefits humanity and not his environment (or life in general).
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Actually humans have been manipulating evolution's effect on us for a long time.
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True, but the thing is that we are now noticing that in the long run our technology is working against us; by turning our weaknesses into strengths we're going against the natural order.
Nature's way has always been about diversity, while technology is all about specialisation.