Technophilia is a religious-like belief that technofixes will somehow save our current way of life. In truth, technology tends to only increase our impact by allowing us to do more faster. See IPAT formula:
Impact = Population x Affluence x Technology
In order to successfully transition society to achieve sustainability, we must accomplish ecological justice, social justice, and economic justice.
In general, the Global North needs to reduce affluence and technology, while the Global South needs to reduce population (through education, access to birth control and abortion, and increased quality of life). The world over, wealth disparity needs to be reduced both within nations and between nations.
Hopefully we will embrace a number of related conceptual solutions: degrowth, circular economy, doughnut economics, sharing economy, mutual aid, cradle to cradle design, biomimicry, cooperatives, unions, library of things, makerspaces, appropriate technology, sustainable design, intentional communities, ecovillages, new urbanism, passive solar design, natural building materials, green building, permaculture, edible forest gardening, Food Not Lawns, urban homesteading, downshifting, simple living, attachment parenting, open education, democratic education, unschooling, libertarian socialism, green politics, deep ecology, secular humanism, sex positivity, and systems thinking.
Some related videos:
Reality 101, a YouTube playlist by Nathan Hagens of The Great Simplification podcast:
See also Ran Prieur, John Michael Greer, Derrick Jensen, Ivan Illich, Lewis Mumford, Joseph Tainter, Jared Diamond, Daniel Quinn, crimethInc, Bell Hooks, Sikivu Hutchinson, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, Alan Watts, Fritjof Capra, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Murray Bookchin, Paul Hawken, Paul Wheaton, Michael Reynolds, and Kelly Hart, among others.
And some of my favorite secular humanism videos:
No comments:
Post a Comment