Thanks to the miracles of new technologies
Any miracle has its limits, at least when it comes to miracles from man’s hand.
Many questions arise:
– Will the advances of green technologies suffice to compensate for the dramatic increase in humanity’s needs?
– Will these advances be disseminated quickly enough to the world population to prevent the foreseeable and unpredictable effects of current and future overexploitation?
– Will materials resources be sufficient to generalize new technological processes? (e.g. lithium for solar and wind accumulators)
– Will recyclages methods, which are never only partial in application, seriously control the accumulation of waste and polluting materials?
– Will new nuisances, linked to new technologies, although lower than those of current industrial and agricultural methods, really be below the planet’s biocapacity, given the future population growth?
– Will these resources generate sufficient food for future populations, given the erosion of land, water scarcity, risks associated with pesticides and GMOs, limiting sources of fertilizer, etc.?
Unfortunately, there are many reasons to believe that humanity’s ecological footprint will only increase dramatically in the coming decades, and that the point of no return will have been exceeded in many areas. We must take into account the increase in consumers, not only because of the spread of progress in all countries of the world, but also because its generalization will inevitably blow up the world’s demographics in the coming generations (as envisaged in the model of the “demographic transition”.
Faced with the immeasurable risk of the biosphere, we must challenge not only the mechanisms that have led to industrial progress and our dependence on consumption and growth, but also the mechanisms underlying the demographic explosion. So decipher all the links between human sexuality and birth rates.