Technology ?

[tradeunionsupporter]

Can Technology be bad Technology causes Pollution Global Warming and or Climate Change caused by the Industrial Revolution is this to blame on Capitalism is Capitalism harming our Environment how can we stop Global Warming ?

[hatzel]

how can we stop Global Warming ?

Primitivism :cool:

But basically yeah there's plenty of groups which consider capitalism incapable of remedying and/or preventing environmental damage and heavily feature ecology in their critiques. Google something like green syndicalism, green anarchism, green socialism, green pretty much anything. And, particularly in and around the youth wings of many Green parties (here in Europe at least) there are plenty of obvious leftists, anti-capitalists and other socialists. Perhaps this is an indication that the green movement as a whole is lurching to the left, I don't know. Let's just wait until that generation come through...

But the critique of technology itself is most often associated with primitivism, and there seems to have been a sudden deluge of threads about that recently, so you can read the arguments there.

[T-Paine]

I don't think we would have the tools to know about our environmental issues without technology...so no. Technology itself is not bad, it's just a tool for man that can be used for good or bad.

Corporations themselves are externality making machines and that includes the environment in a lot of cases. If it's more profitable to wreck the environment in the short term a corporation may go ahead and do it, that said there are incentives not to as well.