The Road Well Travelled & Celsias

Ξ October 31st, 2007 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Science |

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.celsias.com/2007/10/31/the-road-well-travelled/



But his thought experiment exposes the one terrible fact to which our technological hubris blinds us: our dependence on biological production remains absolute. Civilisation is just a russeting on the skin of the biosphere, never immune from being rubbed against the sleeve of environmental change. Six weeks after finishing The Road, I remain haunted by it.

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The unspoken universal thought is this: "if it were really so serious, surely someone would do something?