> Modern technology wouldn’t exist if we had this philosophy 200 years ago
This is a really bad line of thinking - 200 years ago humanity was small and helpless. In year 1788 Britain, the centre of industrial revolution, produced 32,000 tons of iron. Today we produce billions. Our ships weigh more than all the fish in the ocean combined. The chickens we eat weigh more than all the wild animals left on the planet.
200 years ago we did not have the ability to create completely new synthetic chemicals that last thousands of years, today we have put so much plastic in the ocean, it will soon outweigh all the fish.
We didn't have to care about the planet because we couldn't break it- now we can
This is a really bad line of thinking - 200 years ago humanity was small and helpless. In year 1788 Britain, the centre of industrial revolution, produced 32,000 tons of iron. Today we produce billions. Our ships weigh more than all the fish in the ocean combined. The chickens we eat weigh more than all the wild animals left on the planet.
200 years ago we did not have the ability to create completely new synthetic chemicals that last thousands of years, today we have put so much plastic in the ocean, it will soon outweigh all the fish.
We didn't have to care about the planet because we couldn't break it- now we can