The Pacific Ocean is Dying

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2. This begs the question...

“Why would any inherently unsafe technology be implemented worldwide in the first place?” Like, for example, the use of fossil fuels, or the moldboard plow, or the spear?

This isn't an idle or purely mischievous question. Humans have a 50,000 year history of developing new technologies to solve perceived problems, only to find that our incredibly powerful ability to adapt through invention generally leaves us with larger and deeper problems down the road. Nuclear power is just one particularly poignant example of this tendency. It's my no means the only one, or even the worst one.

If anyone wants to know how this "vicious circle principle" works, I highly recommend the recent book "Too Smart for our Own Good: The Ecological Predicament of Humankind" by Dr. Craig Dilworth of Uppsala University.