Nature and technology: Friends or enemies?

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Originally shared by Jaana Nyström

Nature and technology: Friends or enemies?

"It’s all too easy to imagine nature and technology as being engaged in a centuries-long boxing match, with the 21st delivering the knockout punch.

Sunsets obscured by selfies. Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of toxic ‘e-waste’ dumped in Ghanaian wetlands each year. Words such as 'acorn', 'adder' and 'willow' excised from the Oxford Junior Dictionary to make way for 'broadband', 'analogue', and 'cut and paste'.

Humans never were part of nature. We were always part of technology..."

Read on: 
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150703-can-nature-and-technology-be-friends

#Nature   #Technology     #Humanity  
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150703-can-nature-and-technology-be-friends

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