Disasters waiting to happen

All of our current problems are unintended negative consequences of our existing technology. What makes you think that, as of January 1, 2006, for the first time in human history, technology will miraculously stop causing new unanticipated problems while it just solves those it previously produced?
(some of the topics disucssed in the article)
“The environment has to be balanced against the economy”

“Technology will solve our problems”

“We can switch to electric cars, or to solar energy”

“The world’s food problems will be solved by more equitable distribution and genetically modified (GM) crops”

“Just look around you: there is absolutely no sign of imminent collapse”

“Why should we believe the fearmongering environmentalists this time?”

“The population crisis is already solving itself”
“Environmental concerns are a luxury affordable just by affluent first world yuppies”

“If those environmental problems become desperate, it will be at some time far off in the future, after I die”

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