Comments on: Feeding our Consumption … http://blog.brownworks.tv/2009/07/14/feeding-our-consumption/ random musings for those who may or may not be interested ... Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:20:44 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Neil Brown http://blog.brownworks.tv/2009/07/14/feeding-our-consumption/comment-page-1/#comment-91 Neil Brown Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:51:49 +0000 http://blog.brownworks.tv/?p=553#comment-91 Austin ... Thanks very much for the comment. Detailed and specific. I like it! And I appreciate the feedback. First, I fully understand the value of technology, as well as realize the benefits and luxuries it affords. I would like to clarify the main point here ...Our culture can not place its sole salvation in technological advancements. Our culture needs balance. And most technological advancement feeds the consumptive nature of our culture. My point is that technology alone can not solve our problems, the condition our culture must shift away from its over-consumptive nature. With a shift in the condition of our culture, combined with technological advancements, our world would be a much different place. And then would humanity truly benefit. The current condition of our culture was crafted, and crafted with careful intent in order to exponentially increase our economic stature. I recommend watching the following two videos regarding the over-arching point I'm trying to make: 1) Century of the Self http://tr.im/tSP1 2) The Story of Stuff http://tr.im/tSPv Cheers ... nb Austin … Thanks very much for the comment. Detailed and specific. I like it! And I appreciate the feedback.

First, I fully understand the value of technology, as well as realize the benefits and luxuries it affords.

I would like to clarify the main point here …Our culture can not place its sole salvation in technological advancements. Our culture needs balance. And most technological advancement feeds the consumptive nature of our culture.

My point is that technology alone can not solve our problems, the condition our culture must shift away from its over-consumptive nature. With a shift in the condition of our culture, combined with technological advancements, our world would be a much different place. And then would humanity truly benefit.

The current condition of our culture was crafted, and crafted with careful intent in order to exponentially increase our economic stature.

I recommend watching the following two videos regarding the over-arching point I’m trying to make:

1) Century of the Self http://tr.im/tSP1

2) The Story of Stuff http://tr.im/tSPv

Cheers … nb

]]> By: austin http://blog.brownworks.tv/2009/07/14/feeding-our-consumption/comment-page-1/#comment-90 austin Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:31:05 +0000 http://blog.brownworks.tv/?p=553#comment-90 "Technological advances do us very little good"...You have no clue! Technology is what allows you to have your website and your career. Without it, you would be stuck scribing on stone tablets. As for technology in transportation, your argument is baseless. The next time someone is critically injured, tell them they have to be taken to the hospital on a horse-drawn carriage. Or one step further, without technology helicopters would not exist. Critically ill people would not be able to be transferred to a critical care facility. Now, lets talk science. Examining your horse argument over the car shows a lack of thought. If you were to replace every car with a horse, Manhattan would be so polluted with manure you would never be able to walk on the street, not to mention the overwhelming amount of food supplies it would take to feed such a fleet of horses. Horses digestive process involves fermentation of feed which produces methane (a greenhouse gas). The manure that is left ferments more and puts off more methane. You would also have to create huge breeding facilities that would make an automobile factory look "green" by comparison. Now place your ideas on a global scale and you have a huge mess. The answer you seek is not to shun technology, but to embrace it. Rather than going backwards, let us move forward and create new technologies to produce low emissions transportation. Just like the creativity you have to produce this site, others have to produce new technologies to benefit humanity. “Technological advances do us very little good”…You have no clue! Technology is what allows you to have your website and your career. Without it, you would be stuck scribing on stone tablets. As for technology in transportation, your argument is baseless. The next time someone is critically injured, tell them they have to be taken to the hospital on a horse-drawn carriage. Or one step further, without technology helicopters would not exist. Critically ill people would not be able to be transferred to a critical care facility. Now, lets talk science. Examining your horse argument over the car shows a lack of thought. If you were to replace every car with a horse, Manhattan would be so polluted with manure you would never be able to walk on the street, not to mention the overwhelming amount of food supplies it would take to feed such a fleet of horses. Horses digestive process involves fermentation of feed which produces methane (a greenhouse gas). The manure that is left ferments more and puts off more methane. You would also have to create huge breeding facilities that would make an automobile factory look “green” by comparison. Now place your ideas on a global scale and you have a huge mess.

The answer you seek is not to shun technology, but to embrace it. Rather than going backwards, let us move forward and create new technologies to produce low emissions transportation. Just like the creativity you have to produce this site, others have to produce new technologies to benefit humanity.

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