Modern humans are destroying the planet. Once, there was a time in
which people lived in harmony with nature, but those days are long gone.
In order to save the Earth, we must roll back the clock and live like
pre-industrial civilizations lived. Or so goes the classic environmental
narrative, which blames industrialization, modernity, and human
development for what ails Mother Nature.
But as environmental scientist Jesse Ausubel argues in his landmark paper, “
The Liberation of the Environment,”
human beings have been committing sins against the environment for
thousands of years. And contrary to conventional wisdom, modernity,
development, and technology are not drivers of human-led destruction of
the environment. Rather, Ausubel contends, human development is the
liberator of the environment.
http://thebreakthrough.org/index.php/dialogue/paradigm-award-winners/jesse-ausubel-announced-as-2014-breakthrough-paradigm-award-winner
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