By Prasan Samtani See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant. Jeremiah 1:10 If there is a polar opposite to the spirit of Jeremiah, it is to be found in the spirit of “The Gundo” (referring to the city of El Segundo, the spiritual Mecca of the techno-optimists). Unlike the doomsayers who presage the end of modernity and planetary overshoot, the hard tech entrepreneurs of The Gundo have an infectious optimism: their worldview is straightforward - we are in despair because we forgotten how “to build”, and the solution is not to discard or adapt modernity, but to accelerate it.
Well let’s hope the tune changes and not the headaches increase from the pollution?
"Even if we are to transgress natural limits (which I believe we must)"
This troubles me.
Surely, if "transgressing natural limits" got us into this mess, it can get us out? Is that what you're saying?