About the effect of modern technology on us, Louis P. Pojman wrote:
Medical science found cures for tuberculosis and syphilis and has aided in greatly lowering infant mortality, but in the process we have allowed an exponential growth of the population to produce crowded cities and put a strain on our resources. The more people, the more energy produced, the more pollution; the more our lives are threatened by disease. . . . And so the story goes. For each blessing of modern technology, a corresponding risk comes into being, as the tail of the same coin.
Medical science found cures for tuberculosis and syphilis and has aided in greatly lowering infant mortality, but in the process we have allowed an exponential growth of the population to produce crowded cities and put a strain on our resources. The more people, the more energy produced, the more pollution; the more our lives are threatened by disease. . . . And so the story goes. For each blessing of modern technology, a corresponding risk comes into being, as the tail of the same coin.
(Quoted from Environmental Ethics: Readings in Theory and Application, by Louis P Pojman. Wadsworth, 2nd ed. 1998.) For Louis P Pojman’s website, click here. For images of or relating to Louis P Pojman, click here.
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