Will technology destroy the earth?

Question

Well, so far, in the 'Incovenient Truth,' we are slowly melting the ice glaciers and we have built weapons that will destroy an entire country with a butoon, your thought?

Answer 1

technology won't ...... people will

Answer 2

I believe it will be stifled by war first and if we don't win that war then we will be technologically controlled and those controlling with those enormous egos will probably then destroy the earth with all their experiments. The non-believers, the agnostics, and atheists are the ones that want to control and this is the problem. They feel they are G-ds and that they are smarter and know everything, so we probably will be the sacrifice but they will learn the hard way at our expense, unless we correct them and put them all in their place. We cannot alter time or space, but we can alter the problems of pollution, and the fossil fuel burning, and many other problems. We must enforce this but in war there will be more pollution so we are in a catch 22. Happy New Year.

Answer 3

We'll probably doom ourselves off before that planet killing asteroid hits us, before the consequences of global warming are in full swing, before the super volcanoes erupts and surely before our sun supernovas.

Technology in the form of detonating tens of thousands of nuclear weapons that now sit quietly, inconspicuously, in missile silos, submarines and long-range bombers, faithful servants awaiting orders would bring the end of the human species.

The World Health Organization concludes that 1.1 billion people would be killed outright in such a nuclear war, mainly in the US, Russia, Europe, China and Japan. An additional 1.1 billion people would suffer serious injurles and radiation sickness. This would represent by far the greatest disaster in the history of the human species and, with no other adverse effects, would probably be enough to reduce at least the Northern Hemisphere to a state of prolonged agony and barbarism.

The nuclear winter that Carl Sagan spoke about would eventually spread to the Southern Hemisphere, killing all plant and animal life, and eventually mankind.

Are nukes good, the MAD doctrine kept us out of a nuclear war for 60 years, but now with rogue states and rogue leaders, the fallacy of the MAD doctrine is apparent. The weapons of peace for the last 60 years have now been turned to weapons of war. Once again we are staring into the black abyss of a nuclear holocaust

Answer 4

It certainly has the potential for doing so.
I would say, among other conditions and developments, there are two major factors affecting our survival:
1. Taking the environment seriously, enough to take the rights steps and soon (a la "An Inconvenient Truth").
2. Will democracy and technology and economic progress spread rapidly enough to kill the envy of backward countries (by making then less or no longer backward) and the regionally isolated, radical and extreme religious conquests (especially violent ones) and dysfunctional and hungry governments (Communist China and North Korea)--before they overrun us?

Answer 5

As far as I'm concerned, technology is only a symbol of what we have become. The rapid increase in technology has been prophesied for thousands of years, and is just now coming to fruition. All I can say is just make sure you are at peace with the Lord above. Now is not the time for the frail of faith.

Answer 6

In my opinion I think that it is going to. Global warming is taking affect and by 2012 it will be in full force. Its sad that whatpeople think is so good is really so bad. the truth is harsh so people don't put it into terms. The next thing you know everybody will have more then an electric leg but an electric heart that is made with silver so it is cold and has no meaning.

Answer 7

I think it's up to us,, soon we will have some very hard decisions to make. I've read the answers you got so far, you don't have to be a liberal to see what's happening with the climate worldwide. Hopefully that same technology that started the problem, will offer some solutions. Keep on thinking and questioning.

Answer 8

Oh, yeah. Most definitely. The pollution we have right now has been the result of our brilliant automotive "technology." All the trees that have been cut required heavy-machinery technology. The gun was a technological development. Nuclear "technology" is not technology at all. Humans never needed such a weapon and there's no rational reason for its existence. (And there was certainly no rational reason for its use on Japan in the '40s. You don't think conventional bombing from the U.S. would have brought them to their knees just as quickly?)

Yep. We're definitely going to kill ourselves with our brilliant technology.

Answer 9

most of the technologies humans adopted are destructive in the long term basis.while developing sophisticated facilities for some reasons,they neglect the importance of forest existence and the ecosystem needed to attain equilibrium in the whole world.

Answer 10

No technology is like anything else a tool, the real danger comes from us not stopping to ask should we instead of just asking can we, the key is knowing when and where to stop.

Answer 11

yes because we are like you said melting the glaciers and our ozone layer,killing tree,animals people all at the same time i wish it was still the same as the old days where there was no nuclear warheads
weapons
dictators
hate
fear
pollution
famine
disease anything of the sort