Is science the reaon for the environmental crisis?

Question

Let's see: genetic engineering, global warming (wouldn't have happened without electricity), disasters of war (Hiroshima etc.), nuclear contamination, threat to the ozone layer, animal experimentation, human experimentation in Nazi concentration camps, etc etc...

Is it because science doesn't have any values outside itself? That it doesn't have a sense of reverence for nature because it doesn't know what reverence is?

Oops...misspelt "reason"

Answer 1

No I think that it is religion that is the problem.

We just need to realize that science is a religion too.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 2

The first cause was the industrial revolution, the factories poured out the first poisons into the atmosphere and transport added to this as well, science as you pointed out gave the world the contamination of the atomic bomb and nuclear spills have left radiation around that will be with us for the next 1,000yrs.
Science is not the good guy that we have been brainwashed into thinking it is, for every action isn`t there an equal and opposite reaction?

Answer 3

If science is amoral, then you can't really blame science for its applications. Instead, maybe you ought to be asking whether or not the capitalist application of science is at fault here. After all, business did drive a lot of our technological advancement.

I think it's odd that you want to condemn an entire set of disciplines just because you want to make a rather lame point, especially trying to link science with Nazism - as if Hitler were somehow Darwin and Newton's fault.

Answer 4

Ideally science is neutral, the search for truth and understanding. The knowledge it builds can serve humanity at a higher level or it can bow to commercial or corporate interests. When it becomes the servant of industry and corporations, it becomes whatever the bosses tell it to be. It is the values of the humans who use science that make it constructive or destructive.

Answer 5

Science, and all things that expand human power, is the source of many problems, not simply environmental. Absolutely. That's why it is so critical, now that humans have so much power granted to them by the pursuit of knowledge, to be responsible with their thinking- to think clearly and logically. Unfounded, illogical, and emotional ideas might easy motivate terrible and tragic behavior.

Answer 6

True science is good as long as it is in conformity with God's unchanging commandments.

Answer 7

Scientists are human. Religious people are human. "Human" is the cause for the worlds problems.