Technology, the solution?

We see technology as the tool to solve all our problems. Just as we use technology to improve our lifestyles with new products which allow us to different things we never thought possible, we see technology as this ultimate tool for we see it as a instrument bridges to what we want. This belief in technology transfers to the environment in how we see its limitless abilities to gap those ecological and environmental goals with what we are limited in doing now.

There is no doubt that technology will allow us to solve many of the environmental questions that are facing us now but no all. Any of these problems are beyond quick fixes but lie with systematic societal change such as consummation habits. Technology will allow us to drive more fuel efficient cars but it wont stop the damages of a society where everyone drives cars and of an infrastructure to support it.

The fact that many people see technology as a solution is also a sign that people are not willing to immediately do anything to change the downward path of the environment but put hope into some belief that somewhere down the line there will be a technology or advancement that will easily solve what many seem hard right now. This reliance in the future may be too much pipe dream and not enough pragmatism.