Pollution and progress

No change is clean

Horses were an improvement over walking everywhere.

And?

What to do with the horseshit?

What to do with the pollution?

What to do with the unwanted impacts that come with improvement?

Cars were an improvement over horses.

What to do with the CO2?

What to do with the pollution?

What to do with the unwanted impacts that come with improvement?

The internet, social media and the like are a much more efficient way to communicate with others than telephones and letters.

And, they have many unwanted impacts.

What to do with the pollution?

What to do with the unwanted impacts that come with improvement?

EVERY innovation whether technical, political or social has its unwanted and unintended impacts. Every innovation creates one kind of pollution or another.

Here, we have a choice. We can choose to say that the innovation is just so wonderful that the pollution doesn’t matter.

Or, we can honestly acknowledge that there may be pollution. The pollution might be important to deal with. Are there ways to minimize…