Humanist technological progress assumed an environment crowded with humans at nature’s expense
Evidence
Humanist concerns are not only fully compatible with the improvement of the human condition through technological advance, but imply an environment filled with humans at the expense of nature. — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 714
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Wildlife research is a new sport that outflanks mechanization and multiplies cultural value. — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 644; Technological mastery extinguishing nature and cultures is dominated by men by design — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 55; By the 1990s humans had transformed two-fifths of the land surface. — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 65 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Human domination of nature increased our isolation from other species
#complicates(0.78) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 486 - Living in constructed urban environments severs people from ecological consequences
#complicates(0.75) - Technological and print-capitalism advances enabled imagining parallel lives across oceans
#contradicts(0.72) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 716 - Population growth offsets green technology gains and is a taboo topic for ecology
#qualifies(0.72)