Green Thought For The Week

A Green Thought For The Week every week of the year! A 'Green' quote, to start your week, from various sources across the spectrum of the green movement, science and philosophy. Though the selection is broad the perspective of this blog is that of Deep Ecology. The quotes have been selected, complied and edited by John Gale a long term Deep Ecologist. Also hosted is John Gale's "Green Reading List" which lists a selection of must reads for those wishing to Green their perspective!

Monday 22 September 2014

Stan Rowe - Home Place : Essays on Ecology

"Efficiency and risk reduction in the service of humanity, the inner motivations of technological change, must be rethought from an ecosystem perspective."

This weeks Green Thought comes from the 1990 book ‘Home Place : Essays on Ecology’ by Stan Rowe.

http://econet.ca/sk_enviro_champions/rowe.html

http://www.ecospherics.net/pages/aboutauthors.html

1 comment:

Damon Hoppe22 September 2014 at 16:49
Maybe this was true in the Soviet Union but in capitalist economics the role of technology is make things more inefficient and increase their risk of failure regardless of the human or ecological costs. That is to shorten the MTBF (Mean Time Before Failure) in order to force the person to have buy the product again and again until we can reach the state when it is a one-use only disposable item.

The final product of capitalist technology is to have an item that is so inefficient and at such a high risk of failure that it can only be used once and can not be reused, repurposed or recycled at all.

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